Thanks Alan. I am preferring exp / expdp methods to proceed. Please let me know if there any constraints for using that for LONG RAW DType. Regards, Raja.S On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > if you are going with traditional export (the one with exp) then you need > to ensure you have a large enough buffer (think along the lines of largest > row). Datapump is your best bet from 10g on. Though dblink replication > won't work on long data, it's easy enough to export only tables containing > longs to a dump and duplicate the rest with datapump over network link. > > hth > > Alan.- > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Raja Subramaniyan <raja.s28@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> Hi, >> I need to safely transfer databases / tables with LONG RAW coloumns from >> one machine to another. >> >> What parameters have to be used to make exp work with the LONG RAW data >> type and what are all the steps have to be taken? >> >> Thanks >> Raja >> >> >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l