I realize that Oracle's DUL tool works for datafiles from a database that cannot be started. Far from me to argue with Mr. Poder, but I thought he meant by "online" DUL a DUL that would work when the instance is running.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of
> Richard Ji
>
> And DUL doesn't need a running instance to do it's job. All it needs
> are as much data files as you got.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Good point, but there are few issues. Unloading data with SQL
> is slower than
> doing it directly. Yes, direct export is very fast, but it
> doesn't have the
> flexibility DUL does - DUL is built do survive any
> corruptions in data,
> while your export just may fail or server process crashes,
> DUL just keeps
> going & tries to extract as much as possible.
>
> Tanel.
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