Re: Database files

In article <1894_at_rwja.umdnj.edu> holowczk_at_rwja.umdnj.edu (Richard Holowczak) writes:
>jbaker_at_moby.micro.umn.edu (Jeffrey J Baker) writes:
>
>>The company I work for has been thinking about moving their Oracle development
>>system from a RISC platform to one running OS/2. I know that there will be no
>>problem reloading the existing forms, but what I am wondering about is whether
>>or not the existing database files (dbs*.dbf) can be copied directly over to
>>the new system. Has anyone had experience with this procedure? Are there other
>>problems with doing this that I am not taking into consideration?
>>Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
 

>>Jeff
>>jbaker_at_cs.umn.edu

They are definitely NOT compatible. Use export/import, which can create and read portable files that include database schema and data.

• Dan

Daniel Druker
Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA                    

| Dan Druker                                                               |
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