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- From: holowczk@rwja.umdnj.edu (Richard Holowczak)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Database files
- Message-ID: <1894@rwja.umdnj.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:04:45 GMT
- References: <C166nA.15w@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ
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- jbaker@moby.micro.umn.edu (Jeffrey J Baker) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >Jeff
- >jbaker@cs.umn.edu
-
-
- I doubt the file systems are compatible. What you would want to do
- is to EXPORT the data from the RISC box and then IMPORT the
- data on the OS/2 box. It's fairly simple and you can keep
- views and access rights together as well.
-
- Rich H.
- Rutgers U.
-