Re: Converting Oracle DBF to file format usable by MS ACESS - Please help!
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 05:58:00 GMT
Message-ID: <IzEya.679785$Zo.145295_at_sccrnsc03>
You have a couple of choices.
1. Pay Oracle to extract the data from the files.($10,000 plus a current up
to date support contract).
2. Install the same version of Oracle on the same platform that the files
came from. (You can't take Oracle database files from a Sun platform and
copy them to an MS Windows platform and have them work.) Then pay someone
to do a recovery. (Or buy the book or read the manual, but since you are not
very familiar with Oracle it would probably be cheaper for someone to do it
for you. This is assuming you have ALL the files from a good backup of the
database.)
From your responses you are so unfamiliar with robust commercial RDBMS technology - Oracle or otherwise - that it would take a heroic effort for someone to be able to post complete instructions for you to be able to follow. (MS Access is NOT robust commercial RDBMS technology.) Jim
"Joseph Mak" <jhbmak_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d64bb6c6.0305200854.1a0385de_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have about 4 relatively small DBF files that were generated by
> Oracle 8. I tried importing them via the import engine on MS Access,
> but these files are obviously not DBASE format and I do not have ODBC
> access to the Oracle database.
>
> I downloaded the Standard Edition of Oracle, but I'm lost as to how to
> import the DBF files. Can anyone help walk me through it?
>
> Or are there any other tools that can convert these files into a
> format that would be useable?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
> Joe
> jhbmak_at_yahoo.com
Received on Wed May 21 2003 - 07:58:00 CEST