RE: historical data

2001-05-26 Thread Oriole
Chris Spence was kind enough to mention PDQout in his response to this question and the debate since then seems to have revolved around whether exp/imp will still be around to reload archive data. There can be no debate with PDQout however. It creates flat files which can be reloaded with

RE: historical data

2001-05-22 Thread Christopher Spence
Take a look at Thomas's Kytes utility Data Unloadder on his website. Also look at Oriole's PDQ OUT. Both products will avoid the need to recreate the wheel. Also, toad can do this. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We have

Re:RE: historical data

2001-05-22 Thread dgoulet
Chris, I've been exporting data in a similar way as you since V5. The 8i version of import still reads them without trouble. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Christopher Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5/22/2001 7:13 AM Take a look at

RE: RE: historical data

2001-05-22 Thread Christopher Spence
I am not sure what you are saying here, but ok sure. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 1:31 PM To: Christopher Spence; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Chris, I've been exporting data in a similar way as you since V5. The 8i version of import still reads them

Re:RE: RE: historical data

2001-05-22 Thread dgoulet
Chris, Humm, did not think that was clear, but!! We started using export to extract data from our operational data store back in 92 with Oracle Version 5 to tape. These files, copied now to CD's are still usable with Oracle 8i. That's 10 years and no problems. If I can depend on

Re[2]: RE: RE: historical data

2001-05-22 Thread dgoulet
Well when you advertise that it can take 7 business days to restore the data fast is not a consideration. Dick Goulet -- Reply Separator -- Author: Christopher Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5/22/01 3:09 PM Oh, yes agreed 110%. But on another note,

RE: Re[2]: RE: RE: historical data

2001-05-22 Thread Christopher Spence
I would hate to have to say it would take 7 days to do a restore. -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 5/22/01 10:15 PM Well when you advertise that it can take 7 business days to restore the data fast is not a consideration. Dick Goulet

RE: historical data

2001-05-21 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: historical data We have to role off partitions of data every week and I am writing a script to write the data to comma separated files using utl_file. What I was wondering is does anyone have an alternative that is better? I thought about using export

Re: historical data

2001-05-21 Thread Jared Still
My first recommendation would be to do this with Perl and DBI. Fairly simple that way. If not, try using SQL generating SQL to spool the data out. Check out dump.sql at www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util, and modify for your needs. UTL_FILE will probably not work for this due to buffer

Re: historical data

2001-05-21 Thread David Turner
Information Services http://www.superpages.com -Original Message- From: David Turner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 5:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:historical data We have to role off partitions of data every

Re: historical data

2001-05-21 Thread David Turner
Thanks, Dave On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:05:23PM -0700, Jared Still wrote: My first recommendation would be to do this with Perl and DBI. Fairly simple that way. If not, try using SQL generating SQL to spool the data out. Check out dump.sql at www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util, and modify

RE: historical data

2001-05-21 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
http://www.superpages.com -Original Message- From: David Turner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:59 PM To: Deshpande, Kirti Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: historical data What did you use as a delimiter, and are their any limits