Re: Oracle Export Utility

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Cheers
Peter

James Myddelton wrote:

> Help!!
>
> Does anyone know how I can work out what format an Oracle export file is
> held in. I need to extract data from a table or table(s) very quickly (ie.
> by by-passing the SQL layer). I can read the character data ok but the
> numeric/date data is meaningless. The utlities manual just says that only
> the import utility can read the export file format.
>
> Failing that does anyone know of any utilities for exporting a whole table
> which would also allow me to specify which fields I want. This isn't for
> backup purposes - i just need to get the data out as quickly as possible for
> import into another application (on a regular - i.e. daily - basis!!)
>
> SQL is far too slow - so is pro*c
>
> James
Received on Tue Oct 13 1998 - 22:02:49 CEST