Title: download or upload.
Some terminology confusion.
When you load a text file into the database, you call it download or upload?
When you create a text file from your database you call it download or upload?
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amar
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I would say:
When you load a text file into the database, you call it download or
upload? = upload/insertion
When you create a text file from your database you call it download or
upload? = download/extraction
Cheers,
Kev.
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Some terminology confusion.
When you load a text file into the database, you call it download or
upload?
When you create a text file from your database you call it download or
upload
Amar - From the dictionary: upload - to transfer data or programs usually
from a peripheral computer to a central, often remote computer. In your
question of loading a text file into a database, if the text file is already
on the Oracle server, I wouldn't refer to that as an upload or download. I
