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> FYI, recently we upgraded our satabases from 7.3.4.5 to 8.1.7. I forgot to
> specify WE8ISO8859P1 when I created a new database so it was created as
> US7ASCII. I loaded that database with an import that had been done from a
> WE8ISO8859P1 database. Oracle had me trash that db and start over from the
> beginning. They said the data would be corrupted doing an import from a
> WE8etc. database into US7ASCII.
>
the original mail implied that importing from US7xx into WE8xx should not be
a problem since the former is subset of the latter
Marin
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Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the
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Author: Marin Dimitrov
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