[steering] Moving Forward

[.jeff]

dean,

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> From: Dean Mah
>
> > 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.
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yeah, i've wasted about 4 hours tonight trying to get something to work,
trying to find appropriate drivers, the software you note above, etc.  so
far no dice.

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> 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.
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if the export file is available for download somewhere, i'll take a peek at
that.  if that doesn't work out, i'd like to investigate the use of a
control character delimited file.  we'd need to look at a control character
combination to represent columns and one for rows both though.

.jeff

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