Re: Advice: Oracle 6 -> Oracle 7 conversion

> I have an old Oracle v6.0.31.2.2 DB running on a standalone 486 using
> Oracle's protected mode executive. The machine has MS windows
> 3.1 installed. I want to extract the data from the v6 DB and put it
> into an Oracle v7 DB. What's the best way? One more complication:
> the PC is 2000mi away, so I was hoping to have a backup tape sent to
> me, and extact it from there. Will this work? Is there a better way?

I have done this using a simple export and import. A problem occurred only with binary data in long (not long low) columns, when different charactersets where used in the source and target database.

Udo.
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