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 <Richard.Ji_at_ztango.com> 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
>
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>
>
> 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
>
>
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