Re: copy datafile to different systems

And attach this file to a different database? No, this is not possible, unless the other database is an exact replica, including the control files, and the file systems are compatible. This task can be accomplished by export import though, and this will be probably only a little bit slower.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

sylvain_cassart_at_modusmedia.com wrote:

> My apologies for this newbie question, but it is possible to copy a datafile
> from a system to another (for example, Sun to AIX, Sun to NT, Sun to Linux)
> and how ? Each time I try (tar, cpio, gunzip, ...), DBVERIFY always says that
> the datafile copied from one system to another is corrupted.
>
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Received on Thu Dec 31 1998 - 03:25:55 CST