Heterogeneous Services & Oracle Generic Connectivity for dbase DBF file

Dear All,
Can we use Heterogeneous Services & Oracle Generic Connectivity for creating dbase DBF file or Writing in dbase DBF file?
I have used it for Excel and Access for connectivity with Oracle 9i
but I dont have any idea about dbase DBF file?
Any help in this reagards will be highly appriciatalble.
Thanks
Rana

I wouldn't think so these days ... however, you could try posting this in the heterogeneous services - which is somewhere on OTN.
If it we me, I'd convert the DBF into something easier to use with Oracle : like XML or CSV

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Heterogeneous Services & Oracle Generic Connectivity For DBF file?

Dear All,
Can We Create dbf file directly means without using CSV file?
Can we use Heterogeneous Services & Oracle Generic Connectivity for creating dbase DBF file or Writing in dbase DBF file?
I have used it for Excel and Access for connectivity with Oracle 9i
but I dont have any idea about dbase DBF file?
Any help in this reagards will be highly appriciatalble.
Thanks
Rana

HSODBC/DG4ODBC is generic connectivity and you find the generic setup in:
Note.109730.1 How to setup generic connectivity (HSODBC) for 32 bit Windows (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003)
There is nothing sepcial for DBF's. Just define a system ODBC DSN using a DBASE ODBC driver pointing to the DBF file.
The rest is absolute similar to the note.
If you have already a running HSODBC/DG4ODBC the quickest test is to just define a new system dsn for the DBF file, then change in the init>hsodbc/dg4odbc>.ora file the HS_FDS_CONNECT_INFO parameter pointing to the newly created system DSN. Last step is within the Oracle db to define a database link.

How do I start on Oracle Generic Connectivity?

Hi, I am new to Oracle and can i know where i can get info on setting up Oracle Generic Connectivity to connect Oracle with non-Oracle databases?

The documentation is a good place to start. The relevant
link:
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96544/gencon.htm#1656
For supplementary material do a google search on
oracle generic heterogeneous services.
Hope this helps.
Kailash.

Oracle Generic Connectivity in Oracle Application Ser ver 10g.

Hi Tak and All!
With the help of your great guidence, I have connect the Generic Connectivty for MS Access and MS Excel successfully in client server environment.
The topology was..
Host A = Custom installation of Oracle9i database + MS ACCESS
Host B = Oracle 9i Database (Complete)
But...
tell me How the Oracle Generic Connectivity will connect in ORACLE APPLICATION SERVER. What will be the concept and topology? Because the client only have the URL which is used for getting application on browser.
I will be extremely thankful.
All these forums always help me.
Thanks
Rana Adnan

It depends. Oracle Reports can connect to Oracle and non-Oracle databases directly, without using Generic Connectivity.
Your Forms application would presumably connect only to the Oracle database. The Oracle database might well connect to other Oracle and non-Oracle databases via database links. The non-Oracle database links would utilize Generic Connectivity.
Given the three machines A, B, and C
A could connect to B and B could connect to C
A could connect to C for reporting queries
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

Oracle Forms can read the DBF files ?

hi,
i have 2 PC : the first with sco-unix and a database d-base with files .DBF
and the second PC with windows xp pro and data base oracle
i want to know if Oracle Forms can read the DBF files from the first PC and load the data to oracle data base.
thank's

Lido,
If you can create an ODBC connector for your d-Base files you should be able to use ODBC to read the data from these files. The alternative would be to use TEXT_IO (Forms 6i/Client Server) or CLIENT_TEXT_IO (WebUtils) to read the .DBF files (as I recall, d-Base simply wrote a comma delimited data file). Using this method will require you to understand the layout of the .dbf file so you know which data element is which.
Which method you use depends on which version of Oracle Forms you are using and if your application is web deployed or Client/Server.
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Using Oracle Generic Connectivity to connect from Oracle to Microsoft Acces

I am trying to connect from Oracle to Access using ODBC. I followed the steps described in oracle documentation but was not sucessful. Could you plase take a look at my code let me know where I went wrong. It is as follows :
1)Created an ODBC connection for Microsoft Access called 'MSACCESS' (System DSN). And associated accdb1.mdb to this ODBC connection.
2)Created a table called orders in accdb1.mdb.
3)Added the foll lines in tnsnames.ora
accdb1 =
(DESCRIPTION=
(ADDRESS=
               (PROTOCOL=tcp)
               (HOST=kdandapani.170systems.com)
               (PORT=1521))
(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=accdb1)
(HS=OK)
4)added the following lines in listner.ora :
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME=accdb1)
(ORACLE_HOME=c:\orasrv)
(PROGRAM=accdb1)
5) Copied inithsodbc.ora to iniths_accdb1.ora in the ORACLE_HOME/hs/admin directory. Added the following line there :
HS_FDS_CONNECT_INFO = MSACCESS
6)Created the foll dblink :
create database link access1
using 'accdb1';
7)tried to access table ORDERS in the MSACCESS database with the foll SQL -
select * from orders@access1;
Resulted in the foll error message
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name

hi,
I am new to Generic Connectivity i have just followed all the steps you wrote once in this forum but i m getting the following error :
SQL> SELECT * FROM LOGIN@MSACCESS;
SELECT * FROM LOGIN@MSACCESS
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-28509: unable to establish a connection to non-Oracle system
ORA-02063: preceding line from MSACCESS
Following are the steps you suggested in this forum :
1)Created an ODBC connection for Microsoft Access called 'MSACCESS'. And associated accdb1.mdb to this ODBC connection.
2)Created a table called ORDERS in accdb1.mdb.
3)Added the foll lines in tnsnames.ora
MSACCESS.170SYSTEMS.COM =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = kdandapani.170systems.com)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVICE_NAME = MSACCESS)
(HS = OK)
4)This is how the listner.ora looks after I added SID_NAME=MSACCESS :
# LISTENER.ORA Network Configuration File: c:\orasrv\NETWORK\ADMIN\listener.ora
# Generated by Oracle configuration tools.
LISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC2))
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = kdandapani)(PORT = 1521))
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(GLOBAL_DBNAME = ORALOCAL)
(ORACLE_HOME = c:\orasrv)
(SID_NAME = ORALOCAL)
(SID_DESC =
(PROGRAM = extproc)
(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
(ORACLE_HOME = c:\orasrv)
(SID_DESC =
(PROGRAM = hsodbc)
(SID_NAME = MSACCESS)
(ORACLE_HOME = c:\orasrv)
5) Copied inithsodbc.ora to iniths_MSACCESS.ora in the ORACLE_HOME/hs/admin directory. Added the following line there :
HS_FDS_CONNECT_INFO = MSACCESS
6)Created the foll dblink :
create database link MSACCESS
using 'MSACCESS';
7)tried to access table ORDERS in the MSACCESS database with the foll SQL -
select * from orders@MSACCESS;
I have used my login table instead of orders. But i got an error that i have stated earlier.
Can you please help me ? if possible than please forward your reply to : [email protected]
-thank you man,
-imran

Generic Connectivity for 64-bit 10gR2 on Windows

I want to create a database link from a Windows oracle database to SQL Server 2005. The obvious solution seemed to be generic connectivity using HSODBC.
However, I don't have HDODBC.EXE in my 64-bit oracle home.
Doing some investigation, it seems that HSODBC was never supplied/supported on 64-bit windows, and the solution is to use the 11g gateways installed in a separate home and use DGODBC.EXE.
Is this correct?
HSODBC was free with 10g. Is DGODBC still free, or would I have to license it as a gateway product?

Hi Jim,
yes, this is correct. You can use DG4ODBC 11.2 which is the follow up product of HSODBC and which is now available for 64bit Windows.
Like HSODBC the follow up product DG4ODBC is still for free.
You can get the latest software from "My Oracle Support" portal - look for the 11.2.0.2 patchset: 10098816: 11.2.0.2.0 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER and make sure you've selected the 64bit Windows patchset
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ETL for Foxpro DBF files

Hello,
Could you please inform me whether there is any facility in OWB for importing old Foxpro DBF files?
We want to make a data warehouse from old Foxpro systems and there are terabytes of data in the foxpro dbf format(It would be big even after the first ETL). So I hope I don't have to use ODBC that could be slow and use something native instead that could be faster.
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Edited by: user13814337 on Feb 19, 2011 6:49 AM
Edited by: user13814337 on Feb 19, 2011 6:51 AM

Hi,
It will be an ETL process, I am not sure if there is anything like java or pl/sql package that can do this ETL, If it is not there then we have to develop it. I hoped OWB could have something for that, but seems there is nothing built-in in OWB for foxpro systems.
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Connecting remote FoxPro dbf file using jdbc odbc bridge driver?

Hi all,
I am new to this topic, (even I read some threads)
I need to access some FoxPro tables (dbf files) and select some data and save to an oracle table. what is the best method to do this?
If I use java as development tool. which other drivers or methods to use beside jdbc-odbc driver?
I read from this link but I didn't understand.
http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/faq.html#5
"5. How can I use the JDBC API to access a desktop database like Microsoft Access over the network?
Most desktop databases currently require a JDBC solution that uses ODBC underneath. This is because the vendors of these database products haven't implemented all-Java JDBC drivers.
The best approach is to use a commercial JDBC driver that supports ODBC and the database you want to use. See the JDBC drivers page for a list of available JDBC drivers.
The JDBC-ODBC bridge from Sun's Java Software does not provide network access to desktop databases by itself. The JDBC-ODBC bridge loads ODBC as a local DLL, and typical ODBC drivers for desktop databases like Access aren't networked. The JDBC-ODBC bridge can be used together with the RMI-JDBC bridge, however, to access a desktop database like Access over the net. This RMI-JDBC-ODBC solution is free.
"

Another solution by using HXTT DBF, a commercial type 4 JDBC package: You should read Remote Access Questions section at http://www.hxtt.net/en/software/dbf/faq.html#remote .

Opensource jdbc driver for foxpro (dbf file)

Hi!
Does anybody know an opensource jdbc driver for use with Visual Fox Pro database (dbf file)?
Thanks in advance
Edited by: leonardocb on Mar 2, 2009 9:54 AM

leonardocb wrote:
I wanted to say: the "costumer" alway is right I understood that part (customer by the way).
>
JDBC-ODBC bridge? I read about it. But I have doubts:
The dbf is in a windows system. Can I use the bridge it to connect remotely from a Linux System?
If true, Do I need ODBC driver in the Linux System?
However, I think jdbc is more standard (maybe some day the dbf will be moved to a "normal" db)The idea of the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver is that it is JDBC. So in your code you use JDBC. Then, in essence, the bridge driver maps your JDBC calls onto ODBC ones instead.
As far as the Linux part of this goes... I honestly don't know. I think I once heard of someone successfully doing this but I could be wrong. You would for sure need an ODBC Unix driver for DBF. I would suggest searching this forum (for using JDBC -. ODBC on Unix/Linux) before spending a lot of time going down this route. Like I said I think it is possible but I could be wrong, I've never done it
anyway and it wouldn't be a really popular idea.'
So that sort of leaves you wanting a type-4 (pure Java driver for DBF). I think your choices at this point are:
1) Pay money. I believe there are non-free pure Java JDBC drivers for DBF. So you would have to pay money for it however outside of that this is probably the easiest solution and best fits everything else you've talked about.
2) Don't use JDBC for the DBF part. Like the link I posted earlier there do seem to be a few free open-source projects for reading and writing DBF files from Java. This plan though has the serious drawback that it will tie the database interaction code tightly to DBF and not be portable to another database.
3) Drop FoxPro.
So I think your customer needs to pick the option above that best meets the requirements.

Any Mac software for opening DBF files?

I have a mac that is not running Windows.
I would like to at least view the contents of a dbf file. I have tried without success to find (google) such a program.
Is there anything out there that will help me?
Thanks.
-- Jillaine

Try V.K.'s suggestion first - NeoOffice is free and though its database section is extremely clunky you might be able to get it to work with your file.
Apple's now unsupported office program AppleWorks can import DBF files: Apple no longer sell it but you might be able to find a copy; ask for advice in the AppleWorks Forum - you might even be able to find someone who will convert it for you if you ask nicely. (You would still have to open it yourself, so you would need to ask them to export it as text).
FileMaker Pro can import XML and ODBC files but I can't see any evidence that it will import DBF files - you would need to contact their Support on this.
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Parse dBase .dbf file

Hello,
We're writing a java application that needs to read in a .dbf file and eventually insert (via JDBC) into our Oracle 10g database. I wanted to know if Oracle had an API to read in the column Names, column count, row count, and read in each row.
Thanks,
Jim

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Oracle Apps 12.03 and dbf file under $FND_TOP/secure

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I have a question. Back to 11i, there was a .dbc file under $FND_TOP/secure. To generate it or edit, you could use jre oracle.apps.fnd.security.AdminAppServer with the parameters.
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