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>If it were me, I would try to get an ODBC connection to the Oracle tables and use Remote Views to write the transfers. It isn't much different from using Remote Views against SQL. When I was using Oracle at my last job, it came with a satisfactory ODBC driver that has to be installed on the machine. I had good luck with it. Just my 2 cents.

Well what I am trying to cut down is the several read and writes that need to be performed.

The conversion phase will go something like this:

WRITE Oracle Dump Gets Produced
READ Oracle dump is FTP'd to our system (135MB)
READ Oracle Dump Gets Read into our Oracle System
READ ODBC Data is read by VFP one record at a time (as this is a complete load each time)
WRITE Conversion Process Writes the data into acceptable VFP tables.
WRITE Master VFP Tables are copied over with new converted data tables.

So what I am looking for is the method that would be the fastest to get the conversion done and it needs to be automated (done at night while no one is around).

Which brings up another question on ODBC. How can I get my VFP ODBC connection to Oracle to save the password and quit asking me for it? The process cant be too automated if a password has to be input to get the job done.

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>>I need some advice on how to go about doing this.
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>>My group was given the data as a dump from oracle and we loaded it into our Oracle system. Now I want to know what is the best way to get the data out of Oracle and into our VFP database. The data is huge as one table has 5 million records and the next size is 500,000 records. The data will be given to us twice a week and I am tasked to get the data out of Oracle and into our VFP system. As I have no Oracle experience, I was wondering what would be the best way to do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated, but if you do give one that involves doing something inside of Oracle can you provide a detail explanation. Because as I said I do not know Oracle. What I am hoping for is a fairly automated way of getting this done, so that it can run unattended at night.
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>>TIA