Re: import a .out file

Most of that 58 megs is data.  One table alone has 200k records, which is
most of the file...

So I think this is going to be my easiest route -- cutting out the record
inserts and then writing/running a MSSQL-friendly script to get the data
into it's new home.  Since there are relatively few tables, I can afford to
write a few translator scripts in my favorite programming language.

Thanks all for your help with this!  I really do need to expand my
PostGreSQL horizons -- I'm surprised I've lasted these 3 years in
development without running across it before.

Thanks again, guys!

Jonathon


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Broersma Jr [mailto:rabroersma@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 1:59 PM
To: Jonathon Stierman; pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] import a .out file

--- Jonathon Stierman <jonathon@vimm.com> wrote:

> Yep, it definitely is a SQL dump -- it looks much the same as .sql
> files that I'm used to dealing with on MYSQL databases.
>
> Do you have any favorite translator tools that I could look in to?
> The file is massive (58 megs worth) and going through it by hand would
> be quite tedious.

I bet most of the 58MB are just data.  If you can, see if you get get
another dump of only the db SCHEMA.  This is what you should take a look at
first.  I would look at the datatype and any constraints and compare what
the other DB support.

If you only care about the tables and data, you could also "suck" these
tables into MS-Access using ODBC.  Next you could rebuild the relationship
that existed in PostgreSQL.  From this point I see that MS SQL server has
help docs on how to port MS-Access to MS-SQL Server.

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.