I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to detect a if a field selected from an Oracle database is a BLOB? (using CFMX 6.1) My problem is that we are trying to migrate a database over to MySQL from Oracle and due to a lack of inexpensive migration tools (I'd be perfectly happy to be proven wrong here!) since it's a one-off, and a freebie for a long term client.
Anyway, one of my co-workers got the table strcutures duplicated into MySQL using some arcane ritual, but of course it's left the primary key info etc behind, that's all fine , but we couldn't migrate the data itself. We've tried several tools to no avail, so I bit the bullet and wrote a quick CF file that accepts a list of tablenames, loops through them and selects everything from each table - loading that info row-by-row into form variables which have the same name as the columns from that table, I'm then triggering a cfinsert of this info into the MySQL version of the DB before moving onto the next row etc... The problem is this: It works like a charm, isn't even that slow considering the volume of data, BUT, any Oracle BLOBs take on a random bit of garabge at the start of their chunk of data as they're inserted into MySQL TEXT fields, they're fine when they get assigned to the form variable for them - I've output this value and checked it, it must be happening during the cfinsert - I'm just wondering if there's any way I can encode them first? or do we need to go through the MySQL db before running the import and change the TEXT fields to something else? Any help is much appreciated! And sorry for the novella! Aegis -- www.legalwarfare.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:249529 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
