Aditya Alurkar wrote: >Since MySQL allows you to "dump" data directly to CSV files you can always >dump the data and use something like SQLoader to import it into oracle, if >you want to get all fancy perl would be good choice to move the data/maybe >even create the tables. > >A quick google search resulted in http://iheavy.com/node/51 which seems like >a good starting point as well > > > > I would also recommend that way (CSV files) - I think it is possible to attach CSV files as external tables directly to Oracle (and doing the rest with Oracle SQL by simple CREATE AS SELECT) for example http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/misc/ext_table.html or http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/10gdba/week16_10gdba.html regards Remigiusz -- --------------------------------------- Remigiusz Sokolowski <rems@xxxxxxxx> WP/PTI/DIP/ZAB (+04858) 52 15 770 MySQL v. 4.x Oracle v. 10.x --------------------------------------- -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l