Re: imp from 8.1.7 to 8.1.6

From: Rauf Sarwar <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 27 Jan 2005 06:00:38 -0800
Message-ID: <1106834438.426817.128780@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

FlopE..._at_gmail.com wrote:
> I have googled and proded but haven't seen a solution to my version
of
> this problem.
>
> The customer runs 8.1.7 and we run 8.1.6.
> We're both going to 9i but that's months away.
> The customer gave us an export dump of their schema/data.
> We can't import it because of imp-00069.
> Customer says thay can't give us an 8.1.6 export.
>
> Is there a way to import an 8.1.7 dump file into 8.1.6? Any
conversion
> util, bit twiddling? Is 8.1.7's imp.exe freely available and would
> that import into an 8.1.6 installation?
>
> Thanks for any insights, suggestions, or pointers to threads that I
may
> have missed.
>
> --Joe

Don't try to wing it... Oracle won't forgive your mistake. To go from higher version to lower version... you HAVE to use lower version exp. Either your customer has to export with 816 exp or you have to upgrade to 817.

Regards
/Rauf Received on Thu Jan 27 2005 - 08:00:38 CST