AFAIK Toad counts number of rows to compare, does not compare the table contents. On 2/27/06, Spears, Brian <BSpears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I use toad 8 dba.. Compares table contents. Life saver man on messy > installs > > > > Brian ** > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Ranko Mosic > *Sent:* Saturday, February 25, 2006 7:03 PM > *To:* stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx > *Cc:* _oracle_L_list > *Subject:* Re: Quick and dirty way to compare table contents > > > > Again, as far as I am concerned, we can "close" this one. We are using > simple num_rows count. > > > > > > On 2/25/06, *stephen booth* <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 22/02/06, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I think you need to have a conversation with your boss that goes > something > > like this: > > > > "Hey boss, you can ask me to do something, or you can tell me how to do > > it....but you can't do both!" ;-) > > I'm inclined to agree, although I know that sometimes it's just not > possible. > > > > > Ok, here's an actual attempt to answer your question: > > Spool contents of table to a file, compute md5 sum. > > Spool contents of other table to file, compute md5 sum. > > Compare md5 sums. > > > > Could do that, there's plenty of utils out there (many of them free > downloads) for calculating checksums. If your boss wants something > programatic looking you can always encapsulate the calls to SQL*Plus > to spool the files, the calls to the checksum generator and the check > >