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Dennis:
Foxbase was originally called 10-base before Fox Systems change the name. Foxbase was changed to FoxPro and then purchased by Microsoft and called Microsoft FoxPro, and then Microsoft Visual FoxPro. I would highly recommend investigating the MSFT solution. Sorry guys, but this is a realistic solution. Oracle, for eight users, will probably cost too much for the implementation.
If you need to convert to Oracle, do the following:
1. Convert to FoxPro
2. Bridge Visual FoxPro to SQLServer and use the Data Transformation
Services (DTS) to migrate the data to Oracle.
Thank You
Stephen P. Karniotis
Product Architect
Compuware Corporation
Direct: (248) 865-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: Stephen.Karniotis_at_Compuware.com Web: www.compuware.com -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Foxbase to Oracle
Hi All -
We have a small application that was written in Foxbase under DOS. While it
runs fairly well most of the time, the management wants to migrate it to a
windows-based application. We are open to any mainstream application and
database solutions at this point, although our budget is very tight and
this application has only about 8 users max. My question is - does Oracle
provide a good tool for migration from Foxbase? This is a small application
and have only about a dozen tables, my main challenge would be the
application code.
If Oracle turns out to be too expensive, what is the least expensive, least
painful migration path? Another attractive option seems to be Visual
FoxPro, which I know little about. I want to bounce it off the list first
before we make the choice.
TIA
Dennis Meng
Database Administrator
Focal Communications Corp.
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