Re: DBF to Oracle

Bonnie

Hate to burst the bubble of possible hope here, but the DBF to Oracle utility Bert is probably after is one to convert data from another database to Oracle (DB4 or something like that).

Pete

"D. O'Shea" wrote:

> Bert if you know of any tool that will allow me to extract data in ANY
> form from an oracle dbf file, I would be in love with you. I have an
> inaccessible dbf file whihc holds important data that I need really
> bad! I have no backup of the rest of the dbf files which make up the
> database so I cannot reconstruct it, It sits on UNIX but any tool,
> unix or pc wpuld be great. Please e-mail me with anything!
>
> Bonnie O'Shea
>
> On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 01:20:26 +0200, "Bert Vanderstraeten"
> <bvds_at_hotpop.com> wrote:
>
> >Does anybody have any ideas on how to import a DBF file into an oracle
> >table? I am using a small tool that converts the DBF file to plain ascii and
> >loads it into oracle using SQL*Loader but which takes very long.
> >
> >I heard about a tool called dbf2ora to load dbf's directly into the database
> >but as far as I know it only exists for unix, or is there a PC version as
> >well?
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >
> >Bert Vanderstraeten
> >
> >

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Regards

Pete

Received on Wed Jul 07 1999 - 11:06:30 CDT