Re: DBase III migration to Oracle
From: Greg McCann <gregm_at_well.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:24:06 -0800
Message-ID: <38430B16.CAB49027_at_well.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:24:06 -0800
Message-ID: <38430B16.CAB49027_at_well.com>
cc: to josef.buergi_at_ascom.ch
Josef Buergi wrote:
> 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.
Not sure about the Dbase III syntax, but in FoxPro you would say something like...
list fields refno, status, phone to file test.txt
where "status" is a memo field.
HTH, Greg Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 00:24:06 CET