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Re: Problem with importing a database with national (Polish) characters

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:04:56 +0200
Message-ID: <f5ei4n$kqe$1@news1.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


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majster wrote:

> Our client provided an *.dmp file exported from Oracle 8 server and we would
> like to import it with an Oracle 9i server by the "imp" utility. We have no
> way to import the file in Oracle 8 server because we have no license for it.

Ask for the log of the export - see if there are warnings about possible charset conversion.

Another question - are the local characters stored in (var)char, or Nvarchar data types?

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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