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The code to do this in Perl is trivial, and you get the bonus of complete
control,
as well as the ability to generate sqlloader control and paramters files
on the fly.
Jared Still
Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist ( feels like full time lately )
"Tim Gorman" <Tim_at_SageLogix.com>
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05/20/2002 10:43 AM
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Subject: Re: SQL Server to Oracle DB
...speaking of $0.02, make sure that the utility from SQL Server that produces the "flat" file does not perform unsolicited rounding of numerics. I was recently burned on a Sybase->Oracle conversion when the BCP (a.k.a. "bulk copy") and ISQL (a.k.a. SQL*Plus in Sybase) utilities each implicitly round numeric data to the 2nd digit to the right of the decimal. Since SQL Server comes from Sybase, beware...
In ISQL, I could just divide everything by 1.0000 to get the true precision, but BCP doesn't provide that option. Instead, I wrote a shell script to query the Sybase data dictionary to generate the "C" program sources for each table. The Sybase APIs were perfectly capable of handling numeric precision, but the %&^&#* Sybase developers who wrote ISQL and BCP were too lazy to use them correctly. Since the ODBC driver from MS-Access seemed to use the API correctly (i.e. no implicit rounding seen), then maybe the MS folks are more diligent...
Just FYI...
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Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:08 AM
Richard:
Yes. The way I've done it in the past is to generate tilde (~) delimited flat files and then load the data into Oracle via SQL*Loader. You have to do a mapping first before using SQL*Loader. Then you have to write scripts for each table you are loading. I recommend the O'Reilly book Oracle SQL*Loader, The Definitive Guide. This is a process that can take time especially if the Oracle application needs data that the old legacy DB doesn't provide.
My $0.02 worth,
Ken Janusz, CPIM
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Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:03 AM
Anyone know of an easy way to grab data from tables in an SQL Server DB and insert into tables in an Oracle DB? Thanks.
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