Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!wesley.videotron.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!torn!news-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!sapphire.mtt.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC470EE.FE0B2665@m1a2r3.dfo-mpo.gc.cax> From: James Hanway X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Import from 8i to 8.0.5.... References: <7fcfcf73.0110091250.31e6524d@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:01:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.176.61.253 X-Trace: sapphire.mtt.net 1002729707 142.176.61.253 (Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:01:47 ADT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:01:47 ADT Organization: Business Internet Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:120833 X-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:04:35 MST (news.easynews.com) Everything would be soo much easier with Excel flatfiles!!!!! ;) Kidding of course Sybrand Bakker wrote: > "Ash" wrote in message > news:7fcfcf73.0110091250.31e6524d@posting.google.com... > > Hi all: > > > > I want to ( I should say have to :-( ) try to export an 8i database to > > an 8.0.5 database. > > Is it possible? If it is please give me some feedback. > > > > Thank you for you help. > > You need the 8.0.5 export to run against the 8i database. > To do this you need to run catexp8.sql on the 8i database. > You won't be able to import a dmp in the 8i format in 8.0.5 > > Regards, > > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA