Re: retro dump 8.x to 7.x

From: Sybrand Bakker <postmaster_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:03:33 +0200
Message-ID: <939927825.17812.0.pluto.d4ee154e@news.demon.nl>

If you have an Oracle 7 DBA client around somewhere, and run catexp7.sql from $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin | %RDBMS81%\admin you should be able to create an Oracle7 export by connecting the 7 exp tool against your Oracle 8 database.
Loading an Oracle 8 dump will NOT work.

Hth,

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Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
<screwbai_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:7u4tgp$p2r$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Does anyone know if we can load a dump from Oracle 8.15 into 7.3.4.
>
> I don't expect us to be able to. I know that the workaround is to spool
> the data out and then sqlload them back in.
>
> Thanks !!
>
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Received on Thu Oct 14 1999 - 14:03:33 CDT