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Tom Kyte

Thanks for the question, Choo.

Asked: December 21, 2000 - 2:29 am UTC

Last updated: December 21, 2000 - 2:29 am UTC

Version: 8.1.6

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Our company just upgrade to Oracle Database 8.1.6 in Unix platform but most of our customer is still using Oracle Database 8.0.4. The problem for us is Oracle 8.0.4 can not import the table which export by Oracle 8.1.6.

Normally, we will export the table with using "exp" command. And our customer may import those table using "imp" command.

Here is the error message:-
IMP-00010: not a valid export file, header failed verification.
IMP-00021: operating system error - error code (dec2, hex ox2).
IMP-00000: import terminated unsuccefully.

Can you provide us some solution to recover this situations?

Thankyou.

and Tom said...

See
</code> http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:::::P11_QUESTION_ID:820826902083 
An export generated by version X cannot be read by version Y if Y < X.

You will need to install the Oracle 8.0.4 client on a machine somewhere in your network and use that version of EXP to export the data.

Alternatively, you might be able to use something like:
http://asktom.oracle.com/~tkyte/flat/index.html <code>

which will be version idenpendent.





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