RE: Copy long raw data from a remote database

  • From: "David Boyd" <davidb158@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:07:54 -0400

Shawn,

Thanks very much for your suggestion.  Could be possible to share your 
script with me?

David


>From: "Shawn Ferris" <shawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>CC: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Copy long raw data from a remote database
>Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 22:59:24 -0600 (MDT)
>
>My suggestion is to unload the table into a flat file and use SQL*Loader
>with the direct option set. I have a quick and dirty Perl script I hacked
>together to unload a table given the name, or a select stmt. (It's not
>pretty.. maybe I'll clean it up a tad before hand)
>
>Using this script and SQL*Loader.. we un/load huge RAW/ CLOB tables in
>much less time than it would take exp/ imp. (From sybase, I unloaded a
>300k record table, a 2.5GB flat file, in about 45 minutes if I recall.. I
>think SQL*Load took about the same)
>
>This is 8i or better, yes? (I'm not sure how flexible the delimeters are
>in anything but 8.1.7 and better)
>
>Shawn
>SR. Database Admin
>Time Warner Telecom

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