Re: Oracle export file binary format

Much of the information about the export file can be viewed by opening it in a hex editor, however, if you are going to build an import tool, it might be worth considering building an export tool as well that uses an xml or sgml format. Then you could use the tools to migrate data between databases as well as load into Oracle.

Such an xml export might also be valuable to load structural information into design tools such as argo/uml if xmi is used as the xml dtd.

Frank Hubeny

Allan Plesniarski wrote:

> Hi, rather than pay a hefty license fee,
> I have decided to write a utility that can read an Oracle export file
> and perform a multi-stream import. It is just a shame to see a 24
> processor S80 chugging along on one CPU.
>
> Does anyone have any documentation on the binary format of Oracle
> export files? Any leads will gain a complimentary copy of the utility.
>
> Thanks,
> Allan
>
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Received on Thu May 11 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT