MS SQL 2000 to Oracle 9R2

Question

Hi all!
I'm try to connect from Oracle to MS SQL 2000 (all in WIN NT4)
but get
ORA-28508: invalid value OSTRA-KIEV.OFFICE for Heterogeneous Services initialization parameter HS_DB_DOMAIN
My config files:
listener.ora:
LISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = Yazenok)(PORT = 1521))
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(ORACLE_HOME = D:\Oracle)
(SID_NAME = zmey)
(SID_DESC =
(PROGRAM = tg4msql)
(SID_NAME = tg4msql)
(ORACLE_HOME = d:\oracle)
tnsnames.ora:
ZMEY.OSTRA-KIEV.OFFICE =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = Yazenok)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SID = zmey)
(GLOBAL_NAME = ZMEY)
TG4MSQL.OSTRA-KIEV.OFFICE =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = Yazenok)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SID = tg4msql)
(GLOBAL_NAME = tg4msql)
(HS = OK)
INSUR.OSTRA-KIEV.OFFICE =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = solaris)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SID = INSUR)
(SERVER = SHARED)
(GLOBAL_NAME = insur)
inittg4msql.ora:
HS_FDS_CONNECT_INFO="SERVER=ZMEY;DATABASE=insurance"
HS_FDS_TRACE_LEVEL = DEBUG
HS_FDS_RECOVERY_ACCOUNT=insur
HS_FDS_RECOVERY_PWD=insur
HS_DB_NAME=TG4MSQL
HS_DB_DOMAIN="OSTRA-KIEV.OFFICE"
Could anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong on this?
Thanks.

Answer 1

DTS is also buggy which is why SQL Server 2005 has a complete rewrite of the feature.
Nevertheless for straight data dumps Jim is correct in that DTS should work.
For getting the DDL you might consider using Query Analyzer to just dump all the DDL into a file and then using C or a script language to extract and convert the SQL into Oracle DDL. If you are a good script (maybe Perl) coder this would be just as quick as setting up and using the conversion tool.
Once you have the tables defined to Oracle you can use a little pl/sql to generate the sqlldr control cards to pull in the DTS extracted data.
Or you can use the ability of SQL Server to access Oracle by define a remote db and insert all the data accross. You will need to install an Oracle client on the SQL Server box to do this.
You have plently of options. Look them all over and go with the one that best matches your available skill set.
HTH -- Mark D Powell --