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Troubles in Upsizing to Oracle 7.3
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26/11/1997 12:41:09
 
 
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26/11/1997 12:37:42
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Client/server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00062432
Message ID:
00062433
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>I used Upsizing wizard to port data from VFP-5.0 to Oracle 7.3
>I was able to port partially. The following errors occured.
>
>1. Char data type is not in reality converted to VARCHAR2 into oracle
>i.e. a field of width char(30) having 'Satya' is ported as 'Satya '
>with spaces .
>
>2. A table with column name SECTION was exported as SECTION_
>
>3. logical data type is exported as numeric 1 or 0 .
>But I want them to be char 1 or 0 . i.e. '1' or '0' .
>
>4. Even memo fields are having 400 charecters , VARCHAR2(500) is not sufficient and not even VARCHAR2(2000). They need to be essentially declared as long .
>
>5. I already have the structure in Oracle. I want VFP rows only to be copied to oracle and not structure. But the table in oracle is being over written .
>
>And some other errors , which I manipulated in Oracle.
>
>Any body, having solutions can mail me at,
>
>spvedulla@hotmail.com
> or
>spvedula@rocketmail.com

If Oracle structure already exists then you, probably, could create Remote Views and populate them with VFP data. At least here you could check datatypes, etc. programmatically.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant
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