Oracle-L: Re: SqlServer - Oracle transfer issues

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:24:08 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004E0F8E.20021004092408@fatcity.com>

Possibilities:

Prebuild the table with the datatype you want. i.e. varchar2, provided the text column from SQL server is <= 4000 bytes. ( notice I said 'bytes', not 'characters' . No, it wasn't because most of this mail list is made up of characters. )

Prebuild the table with a LONG datatype, and use PL/SQL to do the selects and inserts. I can't recall at the moment which function to use to read chunks of LONGs. Maybe someone else can recall.

I always manipulate LONGs from Perl, much easier.

Jared

Luc Demanche <luckyref_at_yahoo.com>
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Hi gurus,
I need to transfer a few tables from SqlServer to Oracle. I've installed Heteroegous Service between the SqlServer and our Oracle database according to the Metalink doc no : 109730.1

I began the transfer between those two databases with this kind of statement :
create table TableA as select * from TableA_at_hsodbc;

But now I have a problem with the tables on the SqlServer side that contain columns of the Text datatype. Oracle wants to handle it as a LONG datatype. I received this kind of errors :

ORA-00997 : illegal use of LONG database

What should I do ?

TIA Luc

Luc Demanche
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