Re: Oracle 7/8 compatability

Hi Linda,

You can only import into Oracle 7 if you run the Oracle 7 exp on an Oracle 8 database.
To be able to do this you need to run $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/catexp7 on your Oracle 8 database.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Linda Harte wrote in message <3753aa1b.0_at_per-nts1>...
>One of our clients has exported a schema from an Oracle 8 db but when I try
>to import it into an Oracle 7.3 db I get
>
>IMP-00010: not a valid export file, header failed verification
>IMP-00021: operating system error - error code (dec 17, hex 0x11)
>IMP-00000: Import terminated unsuccessfully
>
>which doesn't surprise me really.
>I'm assuming that there is some kind of compatibility flag they can set
when
>exporting so that Oracle 7.3 will recognise the export file. Am I right on
>this one - do any of you know what this is or how you can export from
Oracle
>8 and import into Oracle 7.
>
>
>Thanks
>Linda
>
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 01 1999 - 16:10:47 CDT