DBase DBF import to Oracle freeware tool – console version

andreiash — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:04:19 +0000

As I had a request and I must agree it really makes sense, I developed a console version of the DBF2Oracle tool. Functionality is the same, just that you need to give it parameters from command line.

Usage is:

C:\>DBFImportConsole.exe [file] [username] [password] [TNS]

Example

C:\>DBFImportConsole.exe "C:\test.dbf" HR HR XE

In the end it will give you (hopefully) a result as above.

How to use it:

Make sure that you have .Net Framework 2.0 installed
Make sure that you have an available Oracle 10g or 11g database
Download the DBF2OracleConsole from here
Unzip it into a folder close to root folder and avoid spaces in path
Copy the .DBF file to the above folder or put it into the same kind of folder
Run the console application and supply all parameters in the command line
Check the log and statistics file
Connect to Oracle to see your data (table name is DBF file name)

Download here: DBF2OracleConsole.zip

As an alternative, you can use this file, archived with 7-Zip: DBF2OracleConsole_

In my test here is how the folder looks like:

If you will find it useful or if you have any kind of suggestions just leave a comment.

Good luck!

DBase DBF import to Oracle freeware tool

andreiash — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:16:56 +0000

UPDATE 2008-11-05! A console version is available here

Since I had more and more requests for DBF migrations to Oracle and SQL Developer offers no support for DBF migrations, I decided to make a tool to ease my work. There used to be a command prompt tool (ImpDBF.exe) which generates the equivalent table for Oracle and SQL*Loader scripts for importing the data. This tool was for Oracle 7 and 8 and I don’t have the source code for this tool.

The workaround was to create a frontend for that tool that can also fix problems in generated files.
The result is the like this:

How to use it:

Make sure that you have .Net Framework 2.0 installed
Make sure that you have an available Oracle 10g or 11g database
Download the DBF2Oracle from here
Unzip it into a folder close to root folder and avoid spaces in path
Copy the .DBF file to the above folder or put it into the same kind of folder
Run the application, supply mandatory parameters and click “Load data”
Check the log and statistics file
Connect to Oracle to see your data (table name is DBF file name)

Download here: DBF2Oracle.zip

Known bugs:

columns named as reserved words in Oracle will fail
long or complicated paths for both application or DBF file will fail
multiple Oracle homes on the same machine can confuse the user

In the end you will see such a screen:

If you will find it useful or if you have any kind of suggestions just leave a comment.

Good luck!

Andrei DANEASA » dbf

DBase DBF import to Oracle freeware tool – console version

DBase DBF import to Oracle freeware tool