Bad idea. Just use export and import.
Jim
"Yong Huang" <yong321_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Mark Malakanov <markmal_no_spam_at_rogers.com> wrote in message
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> > There is so many unixes. Probably it is possible to put window's
> > datafiles files into INTEL Linux, and may be it will even work,
> > but nobody can guarantee that, and Oracle Corp will not support.
>
> I documented the success of reusing datafiles in WindowsNT and
> Windows2000 at
http://www.stormloader.com/yonghuang/computer/OracleIdiosyncrasies.html,
> Item#9. You may say they're not really different OSes. Well, Microsoft
> think they are. I have a feeling that the file system and platform
> byte ordering matter more than the OS label.
>
> But more interesting is the test of reusing the same datafile between
> WindowsWhatever and Intel Linux (has to be Intel Linux, not Sparc e.g.
> due to byte ordering). Can anyone do this test? If that succeeds which
> I doubt, then we can try Windows and True64.
>
> In any case, all these are unsupported. Somebody I know had a plan to
> write a program to directly modify datafiles to support cross-platform
> datafile move. Not sure about his progress. That's even more
> un-supported!
>
> Yong Huang
Received on Sat Jun 08 2002 - 01:30:36 CDT
