On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 08:15:50PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Well, COPY will give you the best performance. It's also fairly flexable > > when it comes to formatting. It shouldn't be difficult to get Oracle's > > export tool to generate data that COPY can load. > > With Oracle, everything is difficult. Their export utility does not have > a way to dump things as a series of INSERT commands, nor as tab-delimited > data. There are other tools/scripts around that can do this, but as a > general rule, the word "difficult" is one of the more mild adjectives > usually found in the same sentence as "Oracle utility". :) Can't it export CSV? Copy can deal with CSV. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
