Data import into child objects

[Ragz]

Hi, My name is Raghu and I am totally new to Salesforce. We are implementing a project in Salesforce and requires data import into Salesforce from Siebel. I am just wondering how we populate the relationship field (to maintain the parent child relationship) in Salesforce. I have the parent data loaded into salesforce. I know one way of doing this is export the parent data id and load into a oracle/sql table along with the legacy id(siebel id), match it with the child data (like a join in sql). Is there a better way of doing this in salesforce.com ?

Thanks
Raghu

[Libra]

You have to import the child record with the parent id equal to the id of the parent record.  This means all parent records need to be created first in Salesforce.com.