Data Compare for Oracle
Latest version: 2.1
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Release notes - version 1.xx
Version 1.0 - December 14, 2010
Known issues
The following are known issues with Data Compare for Oracle 1.0:
- If you are comparing multiple schemas, they can take a long time to register
- If a table has a unique index or constraint that is not used as the comparison key, synchronization may cause duplicate value errors
- The following datatypes are not supported if you connect using a direct connection:
BINARY_FLOAT
BINARY_DOUBLE
XMLTYPE
Supported datatypes
Data Compare for Oracle supports comparison and synchronization of the following datatypes:
- CHAR
- VARCHAR2
- NCHAR
- NVARCHAR2
- NUMBER
- FLOAT
- BINARY_FLOAT
Note: BINARY_FLOAT is not supported if you connect using a direct connection
- BINARY_DOUBLE
Note: BINARY_DOUBLE is not supported if you connect using a direct connection
- RAW
- LONG RAW
- DATE
- TIMESTAMP
- TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
- TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE
- INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH
- INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
- BLOB
- CLOB
- NCLOB
- ROWID
- UROWID
- XMLTYPE
Note: XMLTYPE is not supported if you connect using a direct connection
Datatypes not in this list do not appear in comparison results, and cannot be synchronized.
Unsupported object types
Data Compare for Oracle does not support comparison and synchronization of the following object types:
- Materialized views
- Nested table columns
These object types do not appear in comparison results, and cannot be synchronized.
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