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- From: dtb@otto (David Bath)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Database files
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:09:11 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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- jbaker@moby.micro.umn.edu (Jeffrey J Baker) writes:
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- >The company I work for has been thinking about moving their Oracle development
- >system from a RISC platform to one running OS/2. I know that there will be no
- >problem reloading the existing forms, but what I am wondering about is whether
- >or not the existing database files (dbs*.dbf) can be copied directly over to
- >the new system. Has anyone had experience with this procedure? Are there other
- >problems with doing this that I am not taking into consideration?
- >Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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- Use the Oracle EXPORT/IMPORT Utility. You cannot copy *dbf files.
- >Jeff
- >jbaker@cs.umn.edu
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