> -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of VIVEK_SHARMA > Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 23:35 > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Migration from MSSQL to Oracle >=20 >=20 >=20 > How is the NTEXT Datatype column in MSSQL to be migrated to = Oracle?=3D20 > Any advice, tools, utilities, freeware, docs, links on the same & > migration in general of the database from MSSQL on windows to=20 > Oracle on > Linux? Oracle Migration Workbench is a good place to start. otn.oracle.com = will point you in the right direction. On the point of NTEXT columns, I'm assuming you only went NTEXT due to = the 4000 character limit for nvarchars under SQL Server. Oracle has a = 4000 character limit on varchar2 and nvarchar2 as well (let's not worry = about semantic instead of character storage here), so you'll probably = want to look at CLOB or NCLOB. (BTW, anyone know if those sizes are = still the limits in 10g?)=20 Jonathon Lewis' book has several good chapters on the real-world aspects = of dealing with LOBs - I read them last night :-). I'm sure there are = many other fine texts our there as well. My 2 cents. Ciao Fuzzy :-) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l