Re: DBF to Oracle

There is hope for you and you don't have to fall in love with me either :-P
With SQL Server 7.0 (from the "evil empire" MS) there is a migration tool call DTS
(Data Transformer Services), which you can bring Oracle's datafiles over and convert
it into (guess what?)...Microsoft's tables/index/view, etc... You can order a demo (120 days) CD for a few bucks and check it out. It's very sleek
and I called this is a Trojan horse from the "evil empire".

Best of luck (You'll need it).

Sam

Pete Sharman wrote:
>
> 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
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Pete
>
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Received on Wed Jul 14 1999 - 14:43:10 CDT