Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!af4f5987!not-for-mail From: Mark Bole User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Recover .DBF files? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.109.219.5 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.com 1100220887 ST000 69.109.219.5 (Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:54:47 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:54:47 EST Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: [[PA@SRDTZTWRQH]^JKBOW@@YJ_ZTB\MV@BZMVMHQAVTUZ]CLNTCPFK[WDXDHV[K^FCGJCJLPF_D_NCC@FUG^Q\DINVAXSLIFXYJSSCCALP@PB@\OS@BITWAH\CQZKJMMD^SJA^NXA\GVLSRBD^M_NW_F[YLVTWIGAXAQBOATKBBQRXECDFDMQ\DZFUE@\JM Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:54:47 GMT Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:229140 Frank van Bortel wrote: > harry wrote: > >> Running Oracle 9.2 on win 2000 (sp4) >> >> We have several .DBF files left from Oracle 8i that were not >> exported/imported in to 9.2. >> >> Now 8i had been uninstalled is there anyway to extract the data from >> these >> files in to the new system? >> > > Yes; get a paid support contract, hire support to > get them to run DUL (Data UnLoader). Maybe they will, > as DUL does not officially exist. > > BTW; you never export a data file, you export data. > Any chance you have a full export lying around > somewhere, without you realizing it? And full > is a keyword that the export utility uses. Why not just re-install 8i temporarily to get what you need (such as an export)? Surely you didn't migrate to a new production platform without testing first, and having a fallback plan? -Mark Bole