Re: copy datafile to different systems

From: Jonathan Gennick <gennick_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: 1 Jan 1999 00:20:04 GMT
Message-ID: <368c051d.2385351@netnews.worldnet.att.net>

On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 08:47:35 GMT,
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 ?

I've not been able to do it. I don't believe that oracle supports it either. Once I tried to restore a database on NT from a backup taken on a Novell server. As I recall, I got the same error that you did--corrupt files.

Jonathan Received on Thu Dec 31 1998 - 18:20:04 CST