If there are no binary fields you could use bcp in character mode this is
supported on both platforms

"Brian Ceccarelli" <spam@talusmusic.com> wrote in message
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> "Luc Van der Veurst" <lucv@nospam.be> wrote in message
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> > Maria <evoradba@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> > > I have a sybase dump version 11.9.2.5 ON NT and I have created a
> > > database on solaris 5.8. sybase 12.0.0.8. when I loaded I get the
> > > following error message
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> > > Unexpected end of file while reading beginning of dump. Please
> > > confirm that dum
> > > p media contains a valid SQL Server dump. The SQL Server error log may
> > > contain m
> > > ore information on the problem.
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> > > I even tried different version of sybases, and still get this error,
> > > Is sybase not compatible for across platform migration?
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> > No, only if platforms are binary compatible. This is not the case
> > for windows and solaris 5.8.
> >
> > Luc.
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> You can do this with DBPowerSuite. http://www.dbpowersuite.com The
> program to use in DBPowerSuite is called "psCopySchema". It will copy
> both the schema and data.
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