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From:  pamela fluente <pamelafluente@libero.it>
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Subject: Re: Importing .XLS
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:25:07 -0700
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On 3 Ott, 23:28, "johow...@gmail.com" <johow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems odd to me (and others I've spoken with) that there aren't
> more advanced import tools built into applications like Toad.  Sure
> you can import excel table data once you've created the table, but
> isn't the tool supposed to do that for you?  Are there any tools that
> can take an excel file and automatically 1)determine field names,
> 2)determine field types, and 3) determine field lengths?  Seems simple
> to me!

Yes. There is. Do you want to know it ?

-Pam