Can you not substitute say, Oracle Lite for Access on the 'downstream' sites & use Oracle's native replication? (Or keep Access as a front-end, but use OL for the actual storage & the replication.) I would guess you'd be in for less work/trouble that way (tho I know zip about Oracle's replication features).
If you can't, I would try to find a third-party tool that can do it automagically (http://www.aardvark.on.ca/pd/replicate.html claim to have such a solution). If that fails, consider just doing a brute-force complete update of the Access db & have your downstream sites FTP the entire new mdb file over top of the old version. HTH, -Roy Roy Pardee Programmer/Analyst SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT Extension 8487 -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 11:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L James can you tell us more about the requirements of your environment/software that would cause such a solution to arise. I can see the possibility of writing a MS Access client that perhaps your sales staff uses that replicates with the database. Hopefully, you don't have too many tables. You really are not going to have a lot of success I think using anything but a PL/SQL and VBA solution in this regard. - Ethan -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Are you serious? Replication between Oracle and MS Access, why? -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi DBAs, I am researching for solution for a new project. We have a few tables in Oracle8i db, similar tables with more columns and more data in MS Access. The data is very static. Our plan is to synchronize the two dbs, from then on we will always put change(adding more columns, or insert new data) in Oracle first, then replicate the change to MS access db in batch process. I am looking for solutions 1) to compare the existing data in Oracle and MS Access 2) to merge the data into Oracle 3) to maintain the two db on ongoing basis. periodically check if they are in synch, then replicate data to MS access. Is there any tool to do the job? any ideas for solution? One solution I thought about is to use MS DTS to put Oracle into Access, then compare..... TIA James -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Post, Ethan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Pardee, Roy E INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
