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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??
Indeed, the row directory is in the block header.
And like Raj said, there is a length value to tell
you how far to read. The values are encoded in Oracle's
internal format, such as the 7 bytes coding for Date type.
Richard Ji
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Testa [mailto:oracle-l_at_oracle-dba.com] Sent: Thu 9/18/2003 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cc: Subject: Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??Dennis, i dont think those 2 items you mentioned are that encoded, using the dump command you can see how they are stored.
joe
DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
>Wouldn't something like DUL need to read Oracle's dictionary? My impression
>is that a lot of stuff in the data files is heavily encoded, like date and
>number formats. Wouldn't you need the dictionary to understand where one
>column stops and the next starts, and maybe even where one row ends and the
>next begins?
>
>Dennis Williams
>DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
>Lifetouch, Inc.
>dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>
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>There are DUL?s manual.
>http://www.fors.com/velpuri2/dul_ucg8.html
>
>May be interesting for someone.
>
>
>-----Mensaje original-----
>De: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com]En nombre de
>Pete Finnigan
>Enviado el: jueves, 18 de septiembre de 2003 13:55
>Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>Asunto: Re: How to extract data directly from a datafile ?
>
>
>Hi Tanel,
>
>A free DUL in C would be very nice to have and to study the source code
>of. maybe you should also contact Kurt van Meerbeek of jDUL project on
>sourceforge, maybe you have some ideas or info he doesn't have that
>could help his efforts or of course Richard's efforts.
>
>kind regards
>
>Pete
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