Re: Conversion

In article <957777544.23756.0.nnrp-14.9e98496d_at_news.demon.co.uk>,   "Paul Kolbohm" <paul.kolbohm_at_mallon.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Please help and I will be forever grateful.
>
> I have a FoxPro 3.0 clipper database and I wish to convert the tables
 and
> the data to an Oracle 8.0.5 database does Oracle allow conversion from
> FoxPro?
>
> If yes does anyone how.
>
> I can convert from FoxPro to Access then to Oracle 8.0.5 but I want to
> convert direct to Oracle from FoxPro/
>
> Paul K.
>
>

Actually the quickest way looks like to attach those foxpro tables to an access database and exporting them in access directly to oracle. Provided you didn´t use lowercase, spaces and other special characters in your foxpro tablenames, should work like a charm. If you do have special characters, either change your object names or be prepared to enclose them in " everywhere in Oracle.

Hth,

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Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

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