Re: Exporting Oracle database into ascii text

From: Kevin Brand <kevin.brandx_at_tel.gte.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:33:28 -0500
Message-ID: <9ovgnt$f64$1@news.gte.com>

As long as you have compatible versions or are going in a compatible direction between versions, exp/imp will work just fine.

-Kevin

"Sivaramakrishna Iyer Krishnan" <krishnan_at_research.bell-labs.com> wrote in message news:c74cca4c.0109270721.49bfcf51_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I have Oracle running on two platforms - one is HPUX and the other is
> Solaris.
>
> I want to export an entire database called foo from HPUX machine as
> foo.dmp and import it into Solaris machine as foo.dmp.
>
> The import and export utility of Oracle dump them into Oracle binaries
> which will not be compatible across platforms. Correct me if I am
> wrong ?.
>
> So, I want to export the Oracle database from HPUX machine into an
> ascii text and import that ascii into the solaris machine that is
> running Oracle.
>
> Please help me with commands as I am a beginner with Oracle or point
> me to some URLs if this is discussed their.
>
> Thanks,
> Krishnan.
Received on Thu Sep 27 2001 - 10:33:28 CDT