Re: Migrating from MS Access to oracle

I don't know if this is the cleanest way to do what you want but here goes:

1. Save/export Access table into MS Excel.
2. Use the transpose function to convert columns to rows.
3. Clean up new column names
4. Save as .csv (comma delimited file)
5. Create table(s) in Oracle
6. Create sql loader script based to load into table.

I've used this approach before with sucess. It spared me from having to write code to do the transposing. If you need to do some extra validation/conversion you could set up a staging table to load into, then apply validation logic with PL/SQL procedures functions to load into final table. Hope it helps

D.Phillips

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:33 AM

> Hi List,
> I would like your views on migrating from Microsoft
> Access to Oracle8i.
> Folloing is one of the scenarios that we might come
> across.
> There are columns in table need to insert as a row.
> e.g. Access Table1 has column col1,col2,col3
> we need to insert those col1 as row1 ,col2 as row2 of
> Oracle table.
> 1.Can this be done using sql loader ?
> 2.What are the typical limitations u experienced of
> sql loader ?
> 3.What are other ways to migrate (i.e. other than sql
> loader)and also validate migrated data.
>
> I will appreciate any comments and views.
>
>
> Platform:Oracle8i,MS Access 2000
> O.S.:Win2000.
>
>
> Thanks
> Sam
>
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