home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!infocom!idixon
- From: idixon@infocom.UUCP (Ian Dixon)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Importing files from LOTUS
- Message-ID: <582@infocom.UUCP>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 21:39:10 GMT
- References: <31379@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
- Organization: INFOCOM Public Unix Server, +44 [0] 734 340055
- Lines: 28
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
-
- Richard Snyder (rsnyder@ems.cdc.com) wrote:
- > We have an application that requires data to be imported to Oracle
- > tables from a LOTUS spreadsheet. I don't believe there is any
- > Oracle utility to do this. However, I would like the benefit of others
- > experience as to how to go about this. The following comes to mind:
- >
- > 1) Are there any Oracle utilities to do the import written by
- > A Oracle, LOTUS or others?
-
- The version of the Oracle toolset that I use (PC version 6 point something)
- has a utility called (I think ) 123prep.com . I've not used it but as far as
- I recall it pre-processes Lotus files into a format suitable for SQL*Loader.
- This might do the trick.
-
- > 2) If not what is the best approach to import the LOTUS data?
- > a) Write a script in LOTUS to do the import directly.
- > b) Put the LOTUS data into a flat file and then reformat the flat
- > file to an Oracle Import format.
- > c) Some other method.
-
- You could always right the LOtus data to an ASCII file - either fixed-frmat
- or comma-delimited then use SQL*LOader to bring this into your database.
-
- Hope this is some help
-
- Regards
-
- Ian
-