Re: 9iR2 exp -> 10g imp

From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:16:47 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <994f9e8f-bd73-47e9-ae45-1146cb865975@a32g2000prf.googlegroups.com>


On Jun 16, 2:04 pm, Arch <send..._at_spam.net> wrote:

>
> Spooling a select from dba_users proved to be far and away the best
> way to create a script to create the users.  I manually edited out the
> various "built in" accounts (sys, system, etc).  The script included
> passwords, profiles and tablepaces.  I couldn't figure out how to
> embed a literal quote character (') into the spool output, so I used
> _Q_, then a single global replace with an editor fixed the file.
>

Here's two 'obvious' ways:

SQL> select CHR(ASCII('''')) from dual;

C
-
'
SQL> select 'a'||''''||'b' from dual;

'A'

---
a'b

(those would be 4 single quotes).

Also it can be useful to have a NOT IN ('SYS','SYSTEM' etc laying
around to put into scripts.

jg
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Received on Mon Jun 16 2008 - 17:16:47 CDT

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