Dan Bolser wrote:
> At the risk of starting world war 3, I want to ask another 'oracle for
> dummies question'.
>
> I want to get going with oracle in, lets say, less than 1 day. ;) (I am
> serious!).
>
> What I have is this -
>
> FTP acces to an oracle database dump.
> (Database needs *no* input from me, schema is ready to go).
> Oracle sucessfully installed on RH9.
> Good sql grounding (but that isn't the problem (yet)).
> Old (very old) experience with M$ SQL (probably of no relevance).
>
> All I want to do (first) is 'load' the dump into oracle. I have no idea
> how to set up oracle table space, or how to import dumps. Is their a tool?
>
> If anyone wants I can post up the instructions which come with the dump.
>
> Starting for a clean install, I can start/stop database, but what next?
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction of a 'how to' or a 'getting
> started' which explains my problem.
>
> I read all the posts to the previous message 'assisstance required', but I
> figure my first step is so specific perhaps a particular document could be
> pointed out to me.
>
> Again (perhaps just to show you how neive I am) all I want to do is
> simply load the oracle dump they try some sql.
>
> All the best,
> Dan.
>
>
"FTP acces to an oracle database dump. "
HUH?
Can you share with us the name of which utility produced this "dump"?
Do you have enough disk space to hold a copy of the original DB?
Received on Sun Feb 22 2004 - 18:23:35 CST
