Yes and it's called data unloader DUL. And they charge you a fortune for using it. Just ask the other list members. :)
-----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I believe someone has done this within Oracle, ie to read the datafile and dump into a flat-file, which you can then SQL*load. Don't know what the current status is. As for OS format converter, I thought its more than just an endian issue - with high-order/low-order bits to represent file/block and porting groups free to shift the bits as they see fit? ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:29 AM > Richard: > > Not sure whether somebody else also tried this. Sometime back we (yours > turley and few others ) tried developing a tool to convert a datafile > from one OS format to another OS Format (little endian->big endian or > Solaris to NT etc) by reading the datablocks from one format and > writing to another format. > > The original plan was to have a iDUL kind of tool with a fileconverter > to covert oracle datafiles from one OS to another OS. So the user will > have a choice to download the data from data files or convert from one > os to another OS. Since oracle started addressing this facility/feature > in the current (for future?) versions we have dropped that idea as we > don't want to compete with Oracle :D > > I would be interested in knwoing abt your tool too .. > > KG > > > > > --- Richard Ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good idea. I am actually planning on write something like that > > myself. > > I have wrote on a smaller scale one just to extract data > > for our company's database (8.1.7.4) and it was extremely > > handy in one of our recovery situation where a complete > > recovery wasn't possible. > > > > And I am using Java as well. So maybe we can combine efforts. > > > > Richard Ji > > > > -----Original Message----- > > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:50 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > > > Shame, maybe you could email the guy who is writing it and ask for > > details of where he is with it? > > > > kind regards > > > > Pete > > > ===== > Have a nice day !! > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Best Regards, > K Gopalakrishnan, > Bangalore, INDIA. > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: K Gopalakrishnan > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Binley Lim INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Richard Ji INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
