Re: Sql loader loads - what is the name of the counterpart that exports

So Oracle thinks that people will only move into Oracle and not out of Oracle.

Which makes me think. Is there a utility available in other DB's that can extract Oracle data out in plain text?

To put this question in another way, how do you transfer data between different database vendors? Are there utilities out there that allows you to export and import data to and from other types of databases - Oracle to DB2 to MS SQL to Oracle .... ?

Thanks.

ltiu

Philip Douglass wrote:

>No such beast. But you can roll your own... :)
>
>Tom Kyte has a page that directly addresses this:
>http://govt.oracle.com/~tkyte/flat/index.html
>
>-- Philip
>
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>exports
>
>
>Hello guys,
>
>I just blurted out my whole message in the subject line.
>
>Here it is again?
>
>Sql loader loads - what is the name of the counterpart that exports
>Oracle data in plain text?
>
>Export and Import does not handle plain ascii - these handle their own
>proprietary binary format, which utility can export Oracle data out from
>an Oracle database to a plain text file in comma-delimited format?
>
>Thanks for any tips.
>
>ltiu
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