Re: comparing Oracle databases

In article <50kgtb$mlc_at_nouvelles.e33.dreo.dnd.ca> asargusi_at_sbrsim.ed.dreo.dnd.ca (Ayrton Sargusingh SBR/SST/DREO) writes:
>Hi everyone:
>
>I have a particular problem with project I'm working on. A
>contractor of ours has modified a copy of a rather large
>database. Does anyone know if or how I could compare both
>the old and the new databases? Performing oracle dumps of
>both databases does not appear to help; since dump files are
>not plain ASCII text files, they cannot be diff'ed.

If you are on unix, you might try using the strings command on the exports, and doing diffs of those.

>
>If anyone has any advice which might assist me, please
>respond by email. Thanks in advance.
>
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