Re: IMP: still more problems

"Chuck" <chuckh_at_softhome.net> wrote in message news:ahbf1q$rqpti$1_at_ID-85580.news.dfncis.de...
> How will you move data across platforms without exp/imp?

The dump file is a binary file. It can't be beyond the wit of man (or woman) to invent a transportable backup set, just as the dump file is transportable. Or a conversion utility. Something, anyway, that would plug that particular gap.

>Can RMAN handle
> that?

No, not at all. But that's now, and I was talking about my guesses about a murky future.

>I am not well versed in RMAN. I thought it was pretty much a datafile
> level backup/restore utility. One of these days when things slow down a
> little I will learn the program more in depth.
>

I'd recommend that anyway, because RMAN is a brilliant backup and recovery utility, and getting better every release. But don't learn it just yet if all you're after is an export/import replacement. It's not that yet, and it might never be. I'm just guessing.

Regards
HJR
> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:ahbb1k$476$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz...
> > Just my tuppence-worth.
> >
> > Oracle is on record as saying that cumulative/incremental exports will
be
> > de-supported in the future, and (from memory only) the reason they gave
> was
> > that RMAN is the cumulative/incremental guru in these parts.
> >
> > This is just my wild speculation (usual disclaimers apply) but I don't
> > honestly see much of a future for export and import. You've got
> > dbms_metadata in 9i for the structural components. You've got logminer
for
> > transactional replay. You've got other things besides... strikes me that
> the
> > days of export/import are distinctly numbered.
> >
> > And it wouldn't surprise me in the least if one of the factors in that
> > turned out to be exactly what you're saying: so much is happening in the
> > database that it gets harder and harder to update export/import to keep
> up.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
>
>
>
Received on Sat Jul 20 2002 - 09:05:54 CDT