Re: Q: Want to Migrate 8i from WindowsNT to Linux

From: Todd Gillespie <toddg_at_linux127.ma.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 2001 19:35:50 GMT
Message-ID: <99teem$im0$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>

Howard J. Rogers <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote:

: Stuffed, more like.

: Anytime I see anyone recommend editing an export dump file in a text editor,
: I get intrigued... has the person doing the recommending ever pulled this
: trick off themselves reliably and repeatedly? 'Cos the dump file is a
: binary file, not a text file, and you can confidently expect editing it to
: result in total garbage.

Whoops! You don't work on a Unix system! Sucks, don't it! I'm happy that I work on systems that don't draw a distinction between text & binary data.

Oh, and yes, I've done what I have recommended on 4 sites already - and the reason I did so was that this is simpler than tracking tablespaces, types, roles, & users for a large, complex DB -- particularly if the previous DBA was less than fastitious (a problem we all face eventually). Received on Wed Mar 28 2001 - 13:35:50 CST