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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 […]

Our customer is the nation’s largest home outdoor care company, serving more than 2.3 million residential and commercial customers across the United States and having revenues reaching up to $2 billion. Before contacting ABCloudz they had severe business reporting issues. The client’s KPI (key performance indicator) reports were extremely inconsistent and took too much time […]

PerdidoOnline, a Puerto Rico based startup came up with an idea to help the unfortunate among us who lose our belongings wherever we go. Our client wanted to develop a locator and tracking solution t that will substitute the lost and found offices all over the world and save the users from worrying about losing their property. Read more to learn how our team turned this idea into reality.

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 […]

Speed is everything in the highly competitive domain of e-commerce. Digital marketplaces of varied sizes appear at an ever-increasing rate and it becomes more challenging to stand out among the competition. According to estimates, a 6-months delay in a software product release can cut its profitability by at least 30%. These numbers had been relevant […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

A materialized view is an important property of Oracle. SQL Server recreates the same behavior as this materialized view in several ways. Unfortunately, SSMA may have issues with converting this object to SQL Server. It flags certain conditions as an error. In this blog post, we will overview the error O2SS0522. It goes about cases in […]

ABCloudz tech experts possess outstanding experience in migrating databases. For this purpose, we frequently use SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). SSMA utilization may cause various types of errors, so we have created a blog post series which focused on typical database conversion errors. Each post in this series is dedicated to a separate problem statement and […]

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 […]

Oracle enables you to use specific interval literals for indicating a certain period of time. Unfortunately, there is no direct analog for such literals in SQL Server. As a result, when you apply SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for converting Oracle code with interval literals, you receive an error O2SS0086. The term ‘interval literals’ refers to a fixed data value, […]