won't work. Your best bet is to dump to flat files and use sql-loader to
load data. It doesn't make that much sense to me as to why it should work
either given the different data types/data dictionary structure etc in 8
from 7
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Yurasis Dragon" <yurasis_dragonNOSPAM_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Nope, catexp7.sql run against 8i allows exp (7.3.4) to export from an
> Oracle 8i db.
>
> I need to be able to export from an 8i db so that the resulting
> export can be imported into an 7.3.4 db. If I use the 7.3.4
> against an 8i db, no problem, the export can be sent to our
> clients and imported into their 7.3.4 db.
>
> But we'll be getting rid of 7.3.4 and I need a solution without 7.3.4.
>
>
> On Mon, 15 May 2000 23:03:15 +0100, "nntp.freeserve.co.uk"
> <Robert_at_gales.org.uk> wrote:
>
> >(Your question sounds the wrong way round..., but assuming it is right:)
> >Provided you run a special script (its in bin/scripts IIRC) against the
8.x
> >database first, you can then use EXP73 against it - v.vs. works anyway.
> >
> >Robert
> >
> >Yurasis Dragon <yurasis_spamNOSPAM_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:fns0iso9uudob4d2omuks2e6ne78309q85_at_4ax.com...
> >> Since we're going to get rid of Oracle 7.3.4 and move entirely to
> >> 8.1.6, I'm trying to figure how we can get an export from an 8i
> >> database to a client with an 7.3.x db.
> >>
> >> I guess we can use a 7.3.4 export from a PC. I have tried moving
> >> exp from 7.3.4 to the 8i db server and running it from there - core
> >> dump.
> >>
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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>
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