Re: FW: FW: Explain (more is better?)

In dbaccess's defence, when we ported across from our old mp-ras box, I didn't even stuff around with dbimport. got a list of the tables and had a script built unload/load scripts for me. Worked nicely. brett Chris Hall wrote: > > Brett Geer wrote: > > > > Yup, exported the other day, recalculated extent sizes based on > > current table size and expected growth, dumped the DB's and imported > > again. > > > > Thats where we ran into the problem with a field called 'user' > > > > brett > > dbexport/dbimport seem to be horribly broken. We've had all sorts of > problems trying to dbimport something that was dbexported: > > Stored procedures with literal ? characters, e.g > > ... > if some_var = '?' then > ... > > break it, as do other things which I can't remember. > > dbaccess can import the same commands correctly... > > Chris > -- > ************************************************************** > Chris Hall Email: Chris.Hall@OrbisUK.com > Orbis Tel: +44 208 742 1600 > http://www.OrbisUK.com Fax: +44 208 742 2649 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... rm is forever ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 Fax. +27 31 717 4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` now I fear I have no answers -----------------------------------------------------------------