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joel garry  
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 More options Oct 5 2007, 7:17 pm
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc
From: joel garry <joel-ga...@home.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:17:19 -0700
Local: Fri, Oct 5 2007 7:17 pm
Subject: Re: excel to oracle
On Oct 5, 7:37 am, "Tim B" <nos...@someisp.ca> wrote:

> I have some data in an Excel spreadsheet - about 100 -200 records - that I
> need to import into Oracle, likely with some transformation required. I can
> convert it to csv or xml via MS Access and then set it up as an external
> table and proceed from there. What other ways could you suggest that might
> be feasible for this task? Is there another way to do it with xml as the
> source?

Last week someone suggested Apex, so I gave it a try.  It was real
easy (I mean including downloading XE, installing, creating a wizard
and cut-and-pasting a spreadsheet into it), but it screwed up on
special characters like copyright.

I normally use awk in korn shell scripts to masticate and load csv's
with sqlplus or sqlloader.  Then I can deal with the special
characters, commas, ampersands and other cleansing issues, since
people do all sorts of weirdness getting stuff into Excel, thinking
they are being helpful.

jg
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