Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.grnet.gr!news.ntua.gr!not-for-mail From: "George Leontiadis" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Export 8.05 ----> 7.3.4 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:41:24 +0300 Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece Lines: 85 Message-ID: References: <1161602496.296264.264180@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1161609181.792869.70660@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.205.107.114 X-Trace: ulysses.noc.ntua.gr 1161610913 56971 212.205.107.114 (23 Oct 2006 13:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:41:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:277895 ? "sybrandb" ?????? ??? ?????? news:1161609181.792869.70660@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Too bad for the orginazation, and for your resume when they kick you > out. > 7.3.4 and 8.0.5 are both firmly rooted in the Jurassic Park. > You don't drive a 20 year old car, do you? > > Assuming Windows, you must check the NLS_* variables in the registry, > or Unix env vars if you are running Unix. > v$nls_valid_values will tell you which values are possible. > If you only installed Oracle in English, you don't have any > international language library and can't use a 8-bit characterset. > > Please do not top post. > Humans happen to read from top to bottom, not from bottom to top. > > -- > Sybrand Bakker > Senior Oracle DBA > > > > > > On Oct 23, 1:28 pm, "George Leontiadis" > wrote: >> Its not a museum lol ... on the contrary its a big public >> organization........ :-P >> >> I already did the procedure you describe (as i mentioned in my post) but >> the >> problem is still there .. i cannot find a solution :( >> >> Ps: (Actualy both servers are belonging to major public organizations >> haha ) >> >> ? "sybrandb" ?????? ??? >> ??????news:1161602496.296264.264180@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... >> >> >> >> >> >> > On Oct 23, 1:06 pm, "George Leontiadis" >> > wrote: >> >> I am trying to create an export file from my oracle server (8.0.5) to >> >> be >> >> loaded on a 7.3.4 server >> >> >> I already run the catexp7.sql script but when i use the 7.3.4 exp tool >> >> on >> >> my >> >> server i get the following messages >> >> >> EXP-00008: ORACLE error 12705 encountered >> >> ORA-12705: invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified >> >> EXP-00000: Export terminated unsuccessfully >> >> >> (The exp tool of 8.0.5 runs with out problems) >> >> >> Any help it would be greatly appreciated. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> > You need to, as usual, and as documented, use the 7.3.4 export using >> > sqlnet against the 8.0.5 database. >> > The other way around won't work, ever. Running catexp7.sql in the 8.0.5 >> > database is required, as you already noted. >> > Just out of curiosity: in which museum is this configuration located? >> >> > -- >> > Sybrand Bakker >> > Senior Oracle DBA- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - > When i am in a firm i work with the tools that the firm has... I must adapt to the company and not the company to me Its an AIX/UNIX installation and all the nls variables are set Also humans happen to be polite