We made the change from DBMSCOPY to Stat/transfer. We use it exactly
the same way as you do. It has been 100% satisfactory. Good service,
good program, no problems.
Fred Wolfe
At 10:25 AM 11/29/2003 -0800, you wrote:
I've been a very satisfied user of Dbms/Copy for a number of years.
I was
sorry to see that SAS has acquired the program, and I am especially
distrubed at the prospect of having to pay both a version upgrade fee
and a
not so optional annual "maintenance" fee to obtain patches and technical
support. I'm considering Stat/Transfer as an alternative, and I
would be
interested in the experience of others who have made the switch from
Dbms/Copy to Stat/Transfer.
I use Dbms/Copy maily to convert files between Excel, Access, Oracle,
SAS
and Stata. (It's the inability of my current version of Dbms/Copy to
handle
Stata v. 8 files that's forcing me to either upgrade to Dbms/Copy v.
8 or
switch to a different product.) I use both the interactive and the
batch
modes of Dbms/Copy, and I need something that has a batch program
capability
similar to Dbms/Copy. I would also like to have the ODBC drivers for
Oracle
and Access built into the the program--the way Dbms/Copy
operates--rather
than having to purchase separate drivers for these programs.
All opinions and advice would be greatly appreacted.
____________________________________________________________________
Mike Hollis
[email protected]
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. John Lennon
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Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125 Fax (316) 263-0761
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