Re: Data extraction using SQL....

Hi

don't know if you can do this so i may be talking complete twoddle. How about connecting MS Access to your Oracle 6 db. Create tables that you need in a later database, say Oracle 8i and then in access also connect to the oarcle 8 DB. Then create "select into's" from the oracle 6DB to the oracle 8 DB. I don't know if you can connect using ODBC to oracle 6 so i may be talking rubbish here. I have used this technique to migrate from Oracle 7.3.4 ( i think it was ) to a database on an AS400 and it worked OK and the performance was reasonable for the kigration.

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In article <eMzB7.90119$sF.7136628_at_news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, Colin Carpenter <ccarpenter_at_colware.co.uk> writes
>Hi All,
>
>I've been given an interesting project to recover as much data from an old
>HP-UX server running Oracle 6. I don't really have a great deal of
>knowledge in this field so any help would be much appreciated. I can get to
>an SQL prompt and run SQL scripts but again my knowledge is limited. All
>documentation for the database has been lost so I'm not even sure of the
>table names. What I'd ideally like to do is list all the tables that are in
>the database and then dump each one out to a file so that I can do something
>with the data elsewhere - can this be done in SQL??
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Colin.
>
>
>
>

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