Well, I just told you. the restrictions are the buffer size in traditional exp, and the fact that you can't use a network link with datapump. Cheers Alan.- On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:09 AM, Raja Subramaniyan <raja.s28@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 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