Its a little late now, but it got rejected for over-quoting the first time... PS: Why do I get all the "=20"s in these messages? [I'll confess I am Windows-impaired.] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Granaman" <granaman@xxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 8:25 AM Subject: Re: &^@#%$@#%$ stinkin' oracle7 database Yes! Absolutely first class crazy! Also amazingly creative! Go for it! I've got a lot of faith in ya' Matt. Don Granaman OraSaurus - A big fan of Rube Goldberg PS: I get to spend this evening "moving" (CTAS) a 55 GB table, morphing all the data in the process - because MasterDuveloper(TM)'s screwed up program created about 60 million "corrupted" records, and even more useless records, and they didn't even know it - for 40+ days! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial)" <MATT.ADAMS@xxxxxx> > To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 5:45 PM > Subject: RE: &^@#%$@#%$ stinkin' oracle7 database > > > > That one thing I thought of, but I'm supposed to have=20 > > this done by Monday and was looking for something=20 > > faster. I also came up with an idea that just might be crazy. > > > > I haven't tried it yet, but if I can find a UUENCODE program > > that will read standard in and if the unix split program will read > > from standard in, I was considering something along the lines of > > > > export writes the data to a pipe, uuencode reads from the pipe, encodes > > and pipes it's output to split. I then ftp the uuencode pieces to the > > new server, assemble them, uudecode them and load the resultant file > > (into a 9i DB which can handle the large export file). > > > > Is this just crazy? > > > > Matt ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------