[Solved] SQL Server to PostgreSQL

From: "Roderick A(dot) Anderson" <raanders(at)altoplanos(dot)net>
To: "PostgreSQL::General List" <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: [Solved] SQL Server to PostgreSQL
Date: 2000-08-22 16:37:42
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.04.10008220928360.3578-100000@asgard.altoplanos.net
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A thanks to everyone on this list and especially; Jeffery Rhines, Chris
Knight, Chris Bitmead, and Sevo Stille.

The solution turned out to be very simple. After catching a SCSI BUS
speed mismatch problem which caused a NT Backup 'Restore' failure I
discovered that the actual data was in .mdb files! Copied the files to a
system running MS Access (Office 97) and was able to export them to a
delimited format which went into PostgreSQL with very few problems.
Mostly there were split lines which the \copy command didn't like. Hand
corrected them.

I was able to get the table format by using MS Access. Only question left
is what is the corresponding field type in PostgreSQL for a memo field in
SQL Server/Access (varchar(nnnn))?

Again thanks for all the help,
Rod
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