Matt, This may be a stupid idea, so feel free to beat me about the head and shoulders at our next meeting... Could you create subsets of the larger table in smaller tables by using a create table as select with a predicate? Then you could export the smaller tables as separate units. Of course, this also means reversing the process on the import. Daniel Fink Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial) wrote: > I've got a table in an Oracle7.3 database (that I'm finally getting > to upgrade and I'm trying to figure out how to get the data from > the old DB over to the new DB on the new server. > > 1) table is too big to export (even sending the export to a pipe and = > thence > to a compress) > 2) table contains a long raw, so I cannot use the sqlplus COPY command > 3) table contains a long raw, so I cannot do INSERT INTO <DBLINKED = > TABLE> SELECT * FROM... > 4) table contains a long raw, so dumping to a flat file and re-inserting = > using > sqlplus will not work. > > Other than writing a Pro*C program to do it myself, how can this data be = > moved? > > Matt > > ---- > Matt Adams - GE Appliances - matt.adams@xxxxxxxxxxx > Just once, I wish we would encounter an > alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.=20 > - The Brigadier > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------