Re: Transferring a DB to a new platform WITHOUT export/import

Mladen Gogala wrote:

> On Wed, 14 May 2003 03:45:34 +0000, Hans Forbrich wrote:
>
> > Since you have experience at this product, would you please do a comparison
> > between this and a plain export without data? You seem pleased with the
> > performance & I'm intrigued whether this is faster than the export equiv for
> > a "no data" request.
>
> Databee is not a replacement for export without a data, it complements
> it. The output of the DBA tool are DDL commands which would otherwise
> remain embedded in a binary .dmp file. The nice thing is that you can,
> for instance, drop storage clauses. You can do it with TORA as well, but
> TORA is much more powerfull and is much slower because it uses a database
> connection and not a binary fiole parser. LOB types are handled OK. As for
> the object types, I have none.

Thanks - a good eval. Looks like I'll have to check out another tool for the tool belt.

As for object types - invoke Spatial ($) or Intermedia (free). Received on Wed May 14 2003 - 00:01:30 CDT