You can use onunload and onload to move data between databases if the NLS and GLS locales are identical. For example, if user A has a French locale NLS table on server A and tries to load data into a German locale GLS table on server B, onload and onunload report errors. However, if both the NLS and GLS tables were created with the same French locale, onload and onunload would work.
The tape that onload reads contains binary data that is stored in disk-page-sized units. For this reason, the computer where the original database resides (where you use onunload) and the computer where the target database will reside (where you use onload) must share the following characteristics:
If the page sizes are different, onload fails. If the alignment or numeric data types on the two computers are different (for example, with the most significant byte last instead of first, or different float-type representations), the contents of the data page could be misinterpreted.
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