FreeTDS Development Group

[chiang.tan AT truenergy.com.au]

James,
What I did was using DBD::Oracle to extract the data out from Oracle 8 
tables [Field Datatype: Number (15,5)]

Then use Sybase::BCP (Sypperl) to import that data into MSSQL 2000. [Field 
Datatype: [numeric (15, 5)]

I ran the script on Sun Solaris 2.8, using Perl 5.8.7, Sybperl 2.18, 
DBD::Oracle 1.17 and freeTDS 0.63

What I did to overcome this problem was, I did a TO_CHAR on oracle while 
extracting the data (since perl has no datatype), to force a leading zero.

I hope the information helps.

Cheers,
Chiang Tan



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chiang.tan AT truenergy.com.au wrote:
> 
> The exaction of Oracle came back with numbers like .0123 (for number 
> 0.0123), and BCP is not happy with this format. What I need to do right 
> now is to fix this problem then BCP should work again

I just spent an hour looking into this.  What happens with ".0123" depends
on the datatype of the column being loaded.  For REAL/FLOAT, the string is
processed in tds_convert_char() by atof(3), which I would think would not
require a leading '0' (and shouldn't), but still might.  For other
datatypes, we of course have our own algorithms. 

Could you tell me what the column's datatype is?  If it's REAL or FLOAT,
I'd like to know what OS (and what version); if Linux, what version of
libc you have.  (I doubt the problem is there, but it's best to have all
the facts.) 

Regards, 

--jkl





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