<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Since this is a one-time job, I think I will open two db handles in Perl and query one and insert in the other. That will work. Yet, surprising that either a need for this is not as common as I thought it might be, or it is sufficiently variable to preclude a readymade tool to do the job.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Yeah probably as quick as anything else. Or try kettle perhaps (<a href="http://kettle.pentaho.com/">http://kettle.pentaho.com/</a>) </div></body></html>