Re: Retrieving Oracle 5.0 data

From: Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 01:57:52 GMT
Message-ID: <3B008E62.77386AC9@telusplanet.net>

If you have an export, don't bother trying to fire it up - there are confirmed cases of version 5 exports being imported into Oracle8i.

If you don't have an export and the data is that valuable, consider calling Oracle Consulting - some of them actually still have Oracle version 5 lying around.

/Hans

George McLean wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get data out of an old Oracle 5.0 database. This version of
> Oracle runs under MS-DOS but I do not have it running yet.
>
> I seem to be having trouble defining a machine type for SQLPME
>
> I would like to run this on a Pentium 100 in MS DOS mode, Video is Trident
> Super VGA.
>
> When I run SQLPME the screen goes blank so I think that the machine type is
> not correct. The list of available machines is pretty ancient. Is there any
> way to get updated code to run with this?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> George McLean
Received on Mon May 14 2001 - 20:57:52 CDT