Converting a MS Access Query to Oracle SQL

Hi,
We have a large number of MS Access (2000) queries (mostly select queries -Some containing sub queries-) that need to be converted to Oracle's syntax to be used on our intranet instead of the existing Access frontend.
Do you know of a tool that can do this?
We understand that conversion tools are not always reliable, but even if 75% of the queries are converted for us we can then focus on the ones that pose problems.
Regards,
Charles McGrotty

Hi Charles,
The next release of OMWB ( version 92017, due at the end of this year) will contain some support for Select and Action queries. In that version, we will load queries from the source MS Access database into the OMWB repository. Since the MS Access plugin for OMWB does not currently contain a parser, the query text will be commented out and surrounded in an Oracle View stub - this means that the queries can, at least, be migrated to Oracle and then manually converted by the migrator from within the Oracle database. Often, the body text for a select query exactly matches the syntax for an Oracle view, so the manual work required to convert the queries may be minimal. This will be the first step in migrating MS Access Queries that the OMWB provides.
I hope this information is useful,
Tom.

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