Re: VAX float to IEEE float

> Did any one of u faced the problem of migrating VAX/VMS files having - float
> datat(8-bytes) to
>
> oracle8i(windows NT) platform.

Export the data to text and re-import it. Or create a scratch table with the floats as varchar's and use DBI to read/write the data as text before unloading it, read it back in and re-convert it.

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