Re: Data extraction for Oracle 6.3??

hi,

Colin Carpenter wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have an interesting situation where I have been given an old (very old)
> HP-UX server running Oracle 6.3 - it has a database with lots of historical
> data on it. I have been tasked with getting all this data off the machine.
> This is not really my area of expertise and I would be most grateful for any
> pointers on how to get started. We have other database servers and I can
> connect to them with ODBC and use various interrogation tools but I'm not
> sure how to connect to this old box - it is on the network though and I can
> telnet to it.
>
> Any help would be gratefully receieved,
>
> Colin.

what about export/import?
try an full database export with system user (login as the oracle-dba via telnet)
exp system/manager file=db.dmp full=y

the dump file (db.dmp) is not ascii!

hth
andreas

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