Re: Urgent: Oracle 8i export files dont work with Oracle 8.0.5

From: Alex Hudghton <alex_at_alenda.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:04:52 +0100
Message-ID: <7o6pdp$7vl$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>

Aren't you 'migrating' the wrong way ( from 8.1 to 8.0) ?

Is this really supposed to work ?

Alex

Atif wrote in message <7o6nde$cf1$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>From an Oracle 8i database under Linux, I exported a
>simple table using :
>
>exp user/password file=monkey.dmp compress=y tables=monkey;
>
>and then tried importing it under Oracle 8.0.5 under Linux
>without any luck using the following:
>
>imp user/password file=monkey.dmp buffer=64000 commit=Y fromuser=user
>touser=user
>
>But I get all kinds of garbage errors. It seems that the
>dumps are not compatible. This is contrary to what Oracle
>migration docs say.
>
>Does anybody have a solution to this problem?
>
>Thanks a million in advance.
>
>Atif
>
>
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Received on Tue Aug 03 1999 - 08:04:52 CDT