Re[2]: Re[2]: Re[2]: RMAN: I don't trust it

Lyndon,

    Beacuse it's proprietary. Any dunce can create a flat ascii text file, which probably accounts for the wide audience it gets. But it takes a PHD to read a binary one. BTW: IBM and M$'s dump files are binary as well.

    Also, Oracle's default installation does scale, although not as well as it should. And to boot that's the reason your boss pays you. Look at as job justification.

Dick Goulet

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Author: Lyndon Tiu <ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca>
Date:       2/11/2003 10:34 AM

Quoting dgoulet_at_vicr.com:

> Lyndon,
>
> True, an export file is peculiar to Oracle. The difference
> between a
> commercial database and an open source one. IBM and MicroSludge do
> the same.
> The functional purpose though is the same.

Question:

Why a binary file? More efficient? I find the plain text output more useful and easy to store. Recovery is easier as well, just cut and past the relevant lines of script and run it.

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