Yes, on the high end there's Oracle Transformation Services. On the lower end you use SQL*Loader or external tables, SQL, PL/SQL, transparent gateways, heterogeneous services, etc..... It's doable without the funny widget.=20 Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Aragon, Gabriel (GE Commercial Finance) [mailto:gabriel.aragon@xxxxxx]=20 Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 12:18 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Oracle feature like DTS? Hi guys,=3D20 this is a question from one of my programmers, you know in SQL server = =3D there is this feature called DTS (Data Transformation Services) I have a =3D basic knowledge of this tool and use it only to export/import data =3D through Oracle/SQL and data movement in SQL, but I know it is capable to =3D do other things. The scenary is like this: 1. Pull a file from FTP 2. Load it into a table 3. Load another table directly from a database 4. Process data and do some inserts into local DB tables My first thought was to use unix scripts for the FTP stuff and maybe a = =3D proc that use an external table to load and process data, and finally = =3D crontab the entire operation, but (unfortunately) we are running under = =3D win2k.=3D20 Question: Is there anything similiar to DTS in Oracle to "pack" all the =3D steps?=3D20 Comments are welcome.=3D20 TIA. Gabriel=3D20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l