"Rauf Sarwar" <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1107441954.464400.51780_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>
> Frank van Bortel wrote:
> > Rauf Sarwar wrote:
> > > debu_at_rheal.com wrote:
> > >
> > >>Yes, i am working on a utility program in dot net which reads the
> > >
> > > data
> > >
> > >>and does a processing and update the database again. I am reading
> it
> > >
> > > in
> > >
> > >>OracleBinary, What i am trying to accomplish is to convert a mbcs
> > >>string + a locale to a Unicode string. How do i do it?
> > >>Thanks in advance,
> > >>
> > >>Debu
> > >
> > >
> > > Why not just use export/import rather then re-inventing the wheel
> thru
> > > .NET. If you have access to Oracle metalink
> http://metalink.oracle.com,
> > > read docid 225912.1 for an overview.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > /Rauf
> > >
> >
> > I thought long raw wasn't affected by locale settings
> > for imp/exp?
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Frank van Bortel
>
> You are right. I should have read the original post rather then assume
> it's a straight charset conversion :->)
>
> After re-reading the whole thread, Jim's response seems most
> appropriate here. Why use LONG RAW to store chars in the first place?
>
> Regards
> /Rauf
>
I've seen vendor's do that and then they can't use Oracle on one OS and the
client on another OS. (different endians) They dream up a lot of technical
mumbo jumbo about Oracle and endian conversions etc. It is usually BS for
poor design.
Jim
Received on Thu Feb 03 2005 - 20:31:51 CST
