Re: accessing an oracle 7.3 server with linux box?

From: Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_nospam.demon.nl>
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:51:50 +0100
Message-ID: <dn2c21ddrgr3snkse61p5s32fdo4gtkioa_at_4ax.com>


On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:27:04 -0900, joeblow <dadude_at_casselout.dk> wrote:

>We have an oracle 7.3 database that has historical data on it. It will
> stay a 7.3 database until it's decommissioned, probably well after I'm
> gone, if then.
>
>What's the easiest/quickest way to access that database with a client on a
>linux box?

Go to the 7.3 server, export the database, import it in any higher version database (minimum 9ir2) and dump the database.

7.3 has been desupported in the previous century, and there has never been any 7.3 software for Linux.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Wed Mar 02 2005 - 19:51:50 CET

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