Converting Clipper .DBF tables to SQL Server 2000

My company is running a large Clipper application using Advantage Database
Server 6.2 as the backend. We have .DBF tables. We have 6 major retail
markets with over 200 tables in each folder (market).
I am looking for an easy (if that is possible) way to convert these .DBF
tables into SQL Server. In the query analyzer I have created 6 linked server
connections to each of the folders. I am able to do selects from any table
using the OpenQuery function. I have heard mention of DTS but I have no idea
what that is.
Can anyone suggest an easy way to convert these tables over? Also in some
cases its not going to be just a straight column to column data transfer. I
made need to combine data from 2 or 3 more tables on the Clipper side to mak
e
one column on the SQL Server side.
Any help would be appreciated.
David Cuffee
Sleep Train Inc.
Software DeveloperYes, you can use the DTS wizzard to import the dbf files without going
through Query Analyzer commands.
However, if you already are at the point of selecting from the tables
via OpenQuery, then you also have the option of selecting a rowset directly
into a SQL Server table using INSERT INTO. For example: "insert into
MySqlTable select a, b, c from MyDbfTable". If you know SQL, then this
method will make it easy to specify columns in proper order, combine,
transform, etc. as needed.
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> My company is running a large Clipper application using Advantage Database
> Server 6.2 as the backend. We have .DBF tables. We have 6 major retail
> markets with over 200 tables in each folder (market).
> I am looking for an easy (if that is possible) way to convert these .DBF
> tables into SQL Server. In the query analyzer I have created 6 linked
> server
> connections to each of the folders. I am able to do selects from any table
> using the OpenQuery function. I have heard mention of DTS but I have no
> idea
> what that is.
> Can anyone suggest an easy way to convert these tables over? Also in some
> cases its not going to be just a straight column to column data transfer.
> I
> made need to combine data from 2 or 3 more tables on the Clipper side to
> make
> one column on the SQL Server side.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> David Cuffee
> Sleep Train Inc.
> Software Developer|||Thank JT. My brain must have not been thinking. Using the INSERT method with
the SELECT is very good way to do this. now that I have the OpenQuery workin
g.
Thank you very much.
David
JT wrote:
> Yes, you can use the DTS wizzard to import the dbf files without going
>through Query Analyzer commands.
> However, if you already are at the point of selecting from the tables
>via OpenQuery, then you also have the option of selecting a rowset directly
>into a SQL Server table using INSERT INTO. For example: "insert into
>MySqlTable select a, b, c from MyDbfTable". If you know SQL, then this
>method will make it easy to specify columns in proper order, combine,
>transform, etc. as needed.
>
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