Re: Oracle DMP to mySQL -- Possible???

2005-10-26 Thread sheeri kritzer
Oops, I stand corrected. -Sheeri On 10/25/05, Jason Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:22:01PM -0400, sheeri kritzer wrote: > > What you need is the table schemas and the data. Oracle doesn't have > > SHOW CREATE TABLE like mysql does. Furthermore, Oracle also doesn'

Re: Oracle DMP to mySQL -- Possible???

2005-10-25 Thread Jason Martin
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:22:01PM -0400, sheeri kritzer wrote: > What you need is the table schemas and the data. Oracle doesn't have > SHOW CREATE TABLE like mysql does. Furthermore, Oracle also doesn't The oracle-supplied DBMS_METADATA package can do this for you. -Jason Martin -- Silence is

Re: Oracle DMP to mySQL -- Possible???

2005-10-25 Thread sheeri kritzer
What you need is the table schemas and the data. Oracle doesn't have SHOW CREATE TABLE like mysql does. Furthermore, Oracle also doesn't have fun tools like AUTOINCREMENT -- you're going to want to know what the code is for any triggers on the data, because in order to do AUTOINCREMENT in oracle

Re: Oracle DMP to mySQL -- Possible???

2005-10-25 Thread Sid Lane
that looks like a spool file from sqlplus. does it have the data too or just a bunch of describes? if this is what he gave you he is either severly clue-challenged or trying to sabotage you (my $ on later though they're not mutually exclusive). you could write a perl program to parse this into so

Oracle DMP to mySQL -- Possible???

2005-10-25 Thread Cummings, Shawn (GNAPs)
I have some data that has been "dumped" from Oracle into what appears to be a proprietary text file... It is not delimited into a format that I can just import into mysql (easily). The IT guy has provided me an outline of the "dump".. ie; SQL> describe isup051024; Name