The ability of Oracle to export directly to tape is OS dependent. NT can
not do it, but most UNIX systems can. You can create a dummy table and try
running an export directly to tape to see if it works, and if it does you
can truncate it and run an import to be sure you can read the tape.
Kin Yee Lee <leeky_at_acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote in article
<6nu7fi$h32_at_ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>...
> Hi,
> Instead of using import/export to disk to defrag. the database,
> is it possible to import/export to tape to defrag. the database ?
>
> thank you for any help in advance.
>
> kin
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 08 1998 - 08:35:37 CDT
