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- From: brentw@coopsol.com (Brent Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: dBase to Ingres conversion
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.205750.15439@coopsol.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 20:57:50 GMT
- References: <Bu02Es.9Ew@rivm.nl>
- Organization: Cooperative Solutions, Inc.
- Lines: 36
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- jwd@rivm.nl (Jan Diesel) writes:
-
- >I'm posting this for a colleague who expects to receive several
- >dBase III+ tables on a regular basis in the near future. Each
- >shipment consists of exactly one dBase III+ table.
- >We need to convert the dBase data to Ingres so we're looking for
- >software that creates and fills an Ingres table from the original
- >dBase data.
- >Does anyone know if something like this exists ?
-
- When I worked at Ingres several years ago, I developed their PC-based
- dBASE III gateway. This would give you access to dBASE III files in
- place. It would allow you to copy them easily to Ingres files on the PC,
- from which you could then use a standard Ingres utility like COPYDB to
- put them out in a format which could be very easily loaded into an
- Ingres database on a larger machine. This is one very easy way to do a
- format conversion to Ingres (or anything else for that matter, since
- most big machines can swallow Ingres formats easier than dBASE).
-
- I don't know if they're still selling this product (it is on Ingres 5.0,
- an obsolete release) but I heard not long ago that they are selling 5.0
- for DOS in an unsupported version for customers that still want Ingres
- 5.0 support on their PC's. I don't have any idea what this would cost.
-
- Contact your friendly local Ingres sales office. In the Netherlands,
- they're in Bijlmer (Amsterdam).
-
-
- -brent williams
-
-
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- Brent Williams/Cooperative Solutions Inc., San Jose CA (408) 377-0300
- brentw@coopsol.com
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