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Asked: 2026-05-17T01:14:41+00:00

I have a legacy DB dump file which starts off something like this: ^C^@&D

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I have a legacy DB dump file which starts off something like this:

^C^@&D
EXPORT:V07.03.04
DHISTO
RTABLES
8192
0
^@    Mon Jan 11 09:02:31 2010
TABLE "ABCD"
CREATE TABLE "ABCD" ("TIME" DATE, "ELEMENT" CHAR(16), ....

From the “EXPORT:V07.03.04”, and from the data I do have, I am assuming this is an Oracle DB dump (v7). Which tools do I have available to import this data?

Thanks everybody for the help. I ended up installing Oracle XE 10g, and using it to import the dump files – worked perfectly.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, it looks like an Oracle dump format. You can use the imp command:

    imp userid=user/passwd file=file.dmp ignore=y

    Use ignore=y to skip tables that already exist (imp will give an error if the object is re-created). Depending on what you whant to import from the dump you may also have to use other flags, such as full=y (Grants and constraints are automatically included).

    See

    imp help=yes

    for all options of this command.

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