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wided
Posting Yak Master

218 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-19 : 10:13:55

I need to import tables from an Oracle database to a SQL 2008 database
I installed the oracle client tool on the server
ODBC is working properly,

but the import tool from an Oracle database gives the following message:

ORA-12560 TNS protocol adapter error (Microsoft OLE DB provider fro ORACLE)

can you help me

thanks

X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-19 : 10:47:26

You are probably gonna have to go to an Oracle Board

But since I know Oracle a bit, why don't you write a Packag/Procedure to export the data to a delimited file?

I hate these freaking GUI "Tools"

Brett

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