RE: How to extract data directly from a datafile ?

Yes and it's called data unloader DUL. And they charge you a fortune for using it. Just ask the other list members. :)

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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" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> 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 <Richard.Ji_at_ztango.com> 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 !!
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> K Gopalakrishnan,
> Bangalore, INDIA.
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