URGENT! Trying to import..

Question

Hi All,
Trying to import a selection of about 8000 emlx files into mail.. We've tried converting them into an mbox but no success as of yet, which is highly frustrating, im at a clients office and this really needs to be fixed asap. If anyone has any suggestions that would be fantastic.

Answer 1

darby wrote:
1. I have never gotten sql loader to work.
You should, it is very useful. It is also a well established and mature tool, which thousands of people use all the time.
2. what if I replace all the ampersands? Is that what is causing the issue? I could replace & with something like ~~~~ and then replace ~~~~ with & once I got it in.
That should work. (As long as ~~~~ doesn't occur anywhere else ;-) )
3. Why would this work over and over in UAT and not in production? That define thing must be set somewhere.I don't know. I don't know what differences there are between your production and uat environments. That is one reason why using a batch tool like sqlload is preferable to using an interactive tool like sqldeveloper. The environment is much more controllable. It is conceivable you have changed some setting in SQLDeveloper for something other reason which has had an unfortunate side-effect.