Try moving a few gig using BCP even across servers on the same patform. How
are you going to handle file sizes greater than 2GIG ? ( On most 32 bit unix
flavours ). Plus you need all the scripts for creating the tables. You cannot
obtain it from the dump.
--
Denny Koovakattu
In article <36543257.7782_at_ibm.net>,
RobertSimmons <abpitg_at_ibm.net> wrote:
> Yassir Khogaly wrote:
> >
> > Which Sybase Products runs under NT and will be able to restore from Unix
> > Sybase dump...?
>
> Hello,
> It is not possible to directly dump a database on UNIX and load it
> directly into a NT database. This is do to the native character sets.
> The usual method of moving data betwwen the two different platforms is
> to use a sybase utility called BCP ( Bulk Copy Program) which allows you
> to copy tables out in a specified character set and then BCPing the
> output file into the target database on the other platform. You'll have
> to create a duplicate copy of the table on the target before you put BCP
> in the data.
>
> Versions 11.x to 11.9.2 run on NT. Sybase does allow you to down load an
> evaluation copy from their web sight.
>
> Robert
>
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