Re: Upgrade question

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:51:03 GMT
Message-ID: <bWMld.337311$wV.34292@attbi_s54>

"Steve Lenaghan" <lenaghan_at_mts.net> wrote in message news:5xMld.7943$wj7.34528_at_news1.mts.net...
> I always top post, I hate scrolling to the bottom of long posts trying
> to read an answer.
>
> The files were created in various versions of MS products.
>
> Steve
>
> DA Morgan wrote:
> > Steve Lenaghan wrote:
> >
> >> OK I have a lot of files in my server that all end in .dbf
> >>
> >> Dave wrote:
> >
> >
> > 1. Please do not top post.
> >
> > 2. The file extension is irrelevant. To help we must know the
> > name of the application that created them and the version.
> >
> > Unless you have the original application chances are the answer
> > is going to be "No".

Why not try opening them in a tool like Access or Excel as a Dbase file and export the data to a csv. Write a control file and import into Oracle via the sqlLoader program. Or use Google to look up the answer (eg dbf2ora, toop me under 30 seconds to find some hits, and source code.)

Jim Received on Sun Nov 14 2004 - 11:51:03 CST