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Expand capacity with an IBM DB2 SQL Azure SQL Database migration

One of the world’s largest distributors of non-food consumable products wanted to rationalize their data platform and business intelligence strategy. Their current IBM DB2 database system lacked a repository to host historical audit-related data, so they could hardly retrieve data from past years. Then we came up with an Azure cloud database solution that could […]
Andrii Koval

Preparing a healthcare application for HIPAA audit

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is one of the most important United States federal statutes which has a great impact on the development of medical software. This act stands for the safety of the protected health information (PHI) and defines security standards that each digitized medical business should follow. HIPAA sets numerous requirements […]
Kirill Karpenko, Roman Muzyka

Quick and easy automatic approach to database conversion

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 […]
Andrey Khudyakov, Roman Muzyka

An overview of the remote migration from Oracle to SQL Server with SSIS

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 […]
Andrey Khudyakov, Roman Muzyka

Conversion of Oracle schemas with hierarchical queries to SQL Server

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 […]
Andrey Khudyakov (DB architect), Roman Muzyka (writer)

Schema mapping in migration from Oracle to SQL Server

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. […]
Andrey Khudyakov, Roman Muzyka

Migrating from SAS to Big Data for a global retailer

When a global retailer in the beauty industry needed a new and cost-effective data processing solution, they knew the search would require a high level of expertise. That is why they decided to seek advice from ABCloudz. The company had a massive amount of data and utilized SAS software for data processing, both powerful but […]
Andrey Khudyakov (DB architect), Roman Muzyka (writer)

Modernizing advanced engineering application from Oracle to SQL Server

Proprietary database features often create significant obstacles for developers. To demonstrate as an example, we will take a look at one of Oracle’s most valuable proprietary features – Oracle Call Interface (OCI). It ensures efficient communication between the database and the application code. Surely, you may use other options for connecting to Oracle. However, once […]
Andrii Koval

How to define a naming convention in Oracle to SQL Server migrations

Defining a naming convention for the conversion of packaged procedures and functions is a very important step during migration of Oracle database to Microsoft SQL Server. Experienced architects usually point out that this step is as significant as setting schema and data type mapping. Naming convention should be defined at the beginning of the migration […]
Andrii Koval

Improving SQL Server statistics update: How do you make it 1000 times faster than traditional approaches?

One of our clients contacted ABCloudz to request help with their SQL Server app’s performance issues. They upgraded from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2019 and began experiencing problems shortly after. We analyzed their database system and discovered a complex issue with updating SQL Server statistics. These stats are used by the Query […]
Roman Muzyka, Andrey Khudyakov
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