[steering] Moving Forward

[Dean Mah]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 07:21:42PM -0800, .jeff wrote:
> john or dean,
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> > From: John Handelaar
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> > I've got some time on Tuesday or thereabouts which I was
> > planning to spend futzing about with DB exports, ideally
> > to CSV. [...]
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> if i can get an open port to oracle, i might be able to extract
> straight into database tables.

Do you have SQL*Net or Net*8 installed on your client machine?  If
not, I don't think that having an open port will help.  You'd also
have to have your tnsnames file setup properly in order to connect.
You could connect directly with that but if you planned on using ODBC,
you'd need an appropriate driver as well.

I provided John with an Oracle export file already.  If there's a
different format that you want the data exported in, let me know and I
can try it.  The problem with a CSV file is embedded commas and
embedded single- and double-quotes.  It's also likely that people have
embedded tabs into articles.  If you could take a file separated by a
control character, e.g., CTRL-V, that might work better.

Dean