Re: Data Extract

[Ronald J Kimball]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:47:54PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
> Oracle imp/exp-style dumps are only compatible with Oracle. The
> PostgreSQL- and MySQL-style "SQL statement dump" is not considered
> efficient -- and it isn't!! just imagine doing 500 million inserts, with
> the overhead of SQL parsing.
> 
> I guess Oracle never thought someone would want to shift away from Oracle
> particularly after accumulating such a huge quantity of data.
> 

But the original poster isn't shifting away from Oracle; he's moving the
data from an Oracle database on an NT machine to an Oracle database on an
HPUX machine.

Ronald