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Updated 21 Aug 2008

DB2 Load and Oracle SQL*Loader
DB2 Load and Oracle SQL*Loader
Get a comparison of these two utilities, and learn how to use a Perl tool to transform Oracle SQL*Loader scripts to DB2 LOAD scripts.  More

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