ABCloudz recently helped The Morning Star Company, one of the world’s largest producers of tomato products, migrate their Oracle database to SQL Server. The Morning Star Company operates three processing facilities in California, handling nearly 10% of the global tomato production. Their IT infrastructure included both Oracle and SQL Server databases, but due to the high cost of Oracle licenses, the company decided to gradually retire their Oracle servers and migrate to SQL Server. They reached out to ABCloudz for […]

Migrating databases from Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server can be a complex endeavor, especially when it comes to dealing with differences in schema structures, data types, and specific SQL clauses. The SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is a robust tool designed to automate these migrations and minimize manual effort. However, SSMA might not always produce optimal results, and understanding how to overcome these limitations is crucial for a successful migration. At ABCloudz, we’ve encountered these challenges firsthand. Through our experience, […]

Migrating databases from Oracle to SQL Server can be a daunting task, especially when dealing with date and time data. While tools like the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) offer automated solutions, relying solely on these tools might not always yield the best performance. In this blog, we share examples of how to optimize conversion of Date and Time Conversion functions, after it was generated by SSMA. Key differences between Oracle and SQL Server Oracle and SQL Server handle date […]

According to Business Insider, a single minute of data infrastructure downtime in a data center costs the companies using this data center over $8,000. The more complex your data infrastructure is, the greater the risk of errors that can lead to downtime, compromised data quality, or disruption of vital processes. The challenge lies in the fact that even a well-tuned data infrastructure is vulnerable to unexpected errors and disruptions that can severely impact its performance. That’s why it’s crucial to […]

Imagine launching healthcare apps in a snap, with minimal coding required. That’s the promise of our latest innovation—a low-code platform specifically designed for the fast-paced world of healthcare. Developed for a leading pharmaceutical enterprise, it’s a game-changer in custom healthcare application development, catering to an array of treatment requirements with unprecedented ease and flexibility. The strength of this platform lies in its flexibility and versatility. It simplifies the app creation process through an intuitive admin panel UI, where the configuration […]

SQL Server is a veteran in the data management market and Microsoft’s most popular relational database management system. It boasts several benefits, including fast query processing, excellent security and data restoration, easy integration with other database systems, portability, and a variety of tools and plugins to enhance database management efficiency. Moreover, migrating SQL Server to the cloud offers additional benefits, such as improved scalability, database manageability, and cost-efficiency. There are three common options for deploying SQL Server in the cloud: […]

Feng Shui is the practice of arranging pieces in living spaces to create balance with the natural world. VMWare vSphere virtualization has grown since its introduction in 1998, to being the top virtualization technology in use by companies today, holding 23% of the market. Microsoft’s SQL Server product, first released in 1988, has increased its market share to where it also holds the largest market share of industry use at almost 17%. All too often, when working with a client […]

Here’s a new entry to our series of posts on how the ABCloudz team has helped a large pharmaceutical company manage its sophisticated data infrastructure. The customer’s business is rapidly growing, which leads to a significant expansion of their data infrastructure. This infrastructure has exceeded 140 SQL Servers united by complex connections and ETL scripts. In such conditions, making all databases efficient and consistent became a challenge. The customer decided to organize and upgrade all SQL Servers and the rest […]

Our client is a large pharmaceutical company with a sophisticated data infrastructure. Along with the company’s rapid growth, its data infrastructure started growing as well. At one point, their data infrastructure exceeded 140 SQL Servers united by multiple scripts and connections. This growth made its maintenance more challenging and time-consuming. The customer created a professional support and monitoring team to handle any data infrastructure issues, but this did not solve the entire problem. The customer still had issues with organizing […]

It’s no secret that a modern world runs on data. This essential asset is stored in databases or data stores. And keeping such databases or data stores healthy is vital in the digital era we live in. It is also no secret that database issues can take down entire systems and cost businesses many thousands of dollars per hour. The ABCloudz team has years of experience supporting customer databases and delivering database services. A couple of our customers recently requested […]

One of the largest educational organizations in the United States had been running their data handling system in the Oracle environment. They wanted to reduce maintenance costs due to the expensive Oracle licensing model, which includes an additional fee for the partitioning feature. The ABCloudz team provided a solution for migrating the customer’s database to SQL Server. Reconstruction of the original partitioning system in SQL Server allowed us to significantly lower SQL Server maintenance costs compared to Oracle. Check out […]

One of our clients, a large financial software company, wanted to migrate their billing solution from Oracle to SQL Server. They needed to initiate this project because the migration was required by one of their strategic partners. The customer decided to implement SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for this migration. Additionally, they needed to do the data transfer from Oracle to SQL Server. Because of the complexity of the project, the client sought software developers that would build an automated […]

One of our clients, prominent information technology company, needed to migrate its Oracle database to SQL Server so they called ABCloudz. They knew they wanted to automate the major part of the migration with SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) but there were some challenges associated with this process. First, the company’s source database code contained over 400 hierarchical queries that could not be converted with SSMA. And second, the company’s technical staff was also unable to convert such queries. By […]

The migration of Oracle databases to Microsoft SQL Server brings many challenges. One of the most significant is associated with mapping Oracle schema to SQL Server. At the architecture level, the wrong approach will result in significant effort in the future. For example, you may even need to rewrite your app’s entire code from scratch. The problem Oracle database server includes an Oracle database and an Oracle instance. You may learn more about the architecture of the Oracle server here. […]

Mapping Oracle data types to SQL Server data types is often a problem during Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server database code conversions. A tried and trusted solution is to use an SQL Server database code conversion. Another reliable solution is to use SQL Server Migration Assistant. These solutions enable you to automate Oracle database conversions to SQL Server. However, there might be some issues you should consider while using SSMA. For example, by default, SSMA applies the maximum available size […]