At the recent OW conf, Oracle folks did announce that Oracle10g will support TTS across platforms/OS. No word on any data extraction tool as you guys are discussing here.
- Kirti --- Richard Ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > KG, > > Yes, if Oracle start to address this, then it will be pretty hard to > compete with them. :) Besides they already have the DUL, just > hasn't made it freely availble to us. So this is something they > address in 10G? Both the ability to unload data from data file > directly and convert data files accross different platforms? > That'd be great. But it might still be good to have such tools > for 8i and 9i since people will probably be on it for years to > come. > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:30 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > 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 > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Kirtikumar Deshpande 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).
