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Sephozzy
August 7th, 2001, 08:32 AM
Hey all,

While I'm experienced in Java and C++ I know very very little of databases or VB. For some my employer however asked me to write a tool in VB that converts data from some databases to another database. I have 2 different Acces databases (mdb files) that I use as input and I have to transport most of the data to a new Oracle db. Some data needs to be transformed or recalculated so I cannot simply export it (otherwise I wouldn't even have to write this program). I can reach the Oracle db through ODBC.
Being new to VB however I'm unsure about which approach I should use. Reading books and the MSDN library confused me even more with terminology like DAO, ADO, RDO... Can some of you guru's explain what would be a possible way to start on this project?

Andrew_Fryer
August 7th, 2001, 10:07 AM
Hello,

I would make a start by reading up on the different datatypes between Access and Oracle - for instance the Text and Memo fields in Access are both represented by the VARCHAR2 field in ORACLE.

You may also like to read up about ODBC connections as this will allow you to write a program from Access which has a connection to ORACLE once your database is ready to export.

Andrew