Re: export from 8i and import to 8.0.5

<tedchyn_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:8tdp3d$1qd$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Sir, Is it possible to export from 8i and use the 8i dump file
> importing to 8.0.5 database ?
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> thnx ted
>

Hi Ted,

Thank the Lord I'm not a woman, otherwise I might possibly have been offended by your very first word! (Hint: gender neutral at all times, and don't try and be funny about *anything*.)

To the issue at hand: yes, it is possible to get data out of an 8i database and into an 8 database, provided that the dump file you create is an *8* dump file, not an 8i one. The key to pulling that little trick off is to make sure you run the original export against the 8i database using the version 8 export executable.

After that, it's all plain sailing -except that if your 8i database uses any of the new features in 8i (things like locally managed tablespaces, function-based indexes etc etc), you can expect duff results at best, and fireworks at worst.

Hope you pull it off. As it were.
HJR
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Received on Sat Oct 28 2000 - 23:49:01 CDT