Re: Copying a DB from NT to Linux occurs a ORA-01516

"Stephen T. Parfitt" <steve.parfitt_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in news:3B845B33.FE2FCD3E_at_sympatico.ca:

> I may not be 100% correct about this, but as far as I can think Oracle
> does NOT use a 'native' internal representation for data.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that as of 8i they were supposed to start using a datafile representation that was cross-platform capable. I know that they have made changes to the archive logs. The hope was at least from what I remember was that the transportable tablespace would be possible to use on multiple platforms (someday, but not today).

I did some reading in the docs, and everywhere you can find it, they say it won't work. But they do continue to say hardware, not OS. So I would suggest giving it a try.

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Robert Fazio
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