Re: DBase III migration to Oracle

From: Tom Best <Tom.Best_at_bentley.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:08:42 -0500
Message-ID: <3842F96A.11DD60E1@bentley.com>

I've never done it, but can you use MS Access as a middleman... ODBC-connect to dBase III and also to Oracle, and copy the table from one to another. It's up to the dBase ODBC driver how it handles the memo fields, though.

Josef Buergi wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have to migrate a Dbase III db to Oracle. The dbase file itself is not a
> big issue, but what I'm worried about are the memo fields. They are in a
> separate file and I don't know how to get them into a delimitted ascii file
> (key;memo).
>
> Has anybody a workaround how to get memo fields from Dbase in any way into
> Oracle ? I'm not a DBase crack, that's why I'm asking.
>
> Any help is really welcome .....
>
> Please replay to josef.buergi_at_ascom.ch
>
> Greetings from Switzerland
>
> Josef
Received on Mon Nov 29 1999 - 16:08:42 CST