Re: Loading Informix from SQLServer

Posted in 1997

"Billy Wheeler" — 20 Jun 1997 02:03:12 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On 19 Jun 97 at 16:53, chris@saecrc.org wrote: > I don't know how to move information from the SQLServer to Informix. > I ran a query in SQLServer, converted the results to an Excel file, > and went to do a "load" statement into Informix. Apparently, > Informix on the NT doesn't support the load statement like the Unix > platform. So now, I'm at a loss. I'm at a loss too - why did you convert to an Excel file? Informix likes to load from text files! :-) More constrcutive comment: check out the dbload program. You will have to write and simple loading script, but it is still there. :-) HTH. -- Ciao, Billy Nose to the ground and ear to the grindstone in: Kuwait