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Custom data migration solution for a complex Oracle to PostgreSQL migration project using AWS DMS
In this post we’d like to share with you our experience in delivering a sophisticated database migration solution on top of AWS DMS for one of our large enterprise customers. The client is a large technology corporation that provides software solutions and services for telecom giants and mid-size companies. They ran numerous Oracle databases where […]
Alexander Gora
Data management strategy: How to reduce costs and eliminate downtime
Data infrastructure is what powers the proper performance of your software. However, unexpected issues can occur making your system unavailable. That’s where the notion of a downtime, a time period when the system is not available, comes in. Downtime may have different causes and outcomes. But one thing is certain, downtime can be extremely expensive. […]
Sergii Zymbytskyi
Migrating healthcare app databases from AWS Datica to independent AWS servers
A modern medical company was running a large healthcare platform connecting patients with medical imaging providers. They had databases for the admin app, patient app, physician app, and the original service portal. All these databases were running on AWS cloud servers deployed and managed by Datica. The latter helped the customer scale and manage their […]
Viacheslav Kim, Marat Razzakov
Oracle to PostgreSQL migration with AWS SCT: How to handle unsupported NumToDSInterval function
In this post we continue exploring the technical aspects of Oracle to PostgreSQL migration using AWS SCT. We were using AWS SCT build#660 to convert one of our Oracle test databases. AWS SCT provides functionalities for the most efficient migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL. However, there is a common challenge with implementing the Oracle NumToDSInterval […]
Oleksii Savchenko
Oracle to MySQL migration with AWS SCT: How to convert BULK COLLECT clause
In this blog post we continue covering AWS SCT conversion issues, adding to the series where we help developers to deal with complex migration issues that can’t be automated with SCT. Today we are going to look into how SCT Build #660 addresses the conversion of statements with BULK COLLECT clause. In Oracle, you can […]
Artem Avetyan
Oracle to MySQL migration with AWS SCT: How to handle unsupported NumToYmInterval function
Here’s one more insight into common code conversion issues while using AWS SCT build number 660. This time, we will tell you how to convert NumToYmInterval from Oracle to MySQL. Oracle has a NumToYmInterval function that converts the provided number value of specified expressions or time units to an interval year to month literal. Usually, […]
Artem Avetyan
Oracle to MySQL migration with AWS SCT: How to convert variables of SYS_REFCURSOR datatype
We continue our series of common issues pertaining to code conversions with AWS SCT. This time, we analyze the peculiarities of converting REF CURSOR types from Oracle to MySQL with the help of AWS SCT build number 660. In Oracle 9i, there is the predefined SYS_REFCURSOR type, which means that defining our own REF CURSOR […]
Artem Avetyan
Oracle to PostgreSQL migration with AWS SCT: How to convert INSERT ALL statement
In this post we continue exploring the technical aspects of Oracle to PostgreSQL migration using AWS SCT. AWS SCT promises a very high level of migration efforts, however it is very rare that 100% automation is achieved. In this article we’ll look into conversion of INSERT ALL statements, which are quite popular in Oracle code. […]
Oleksii Savchenko
Oracle to PostgreSQL migration with AWS SCT: How to handle unsupported data types
In this post we explore the technical aspects of Oracle to PostgreSQL migration using AWS SCT. We’ll look into conversion of Oracle “aliases”. We were using AWS SCT build #660 to convert one of our Oracle test databases. The challenge Oracle’s subtype declaration allows creating an “alias” for some datatype declaration, which can be re-used […]
Oleksii Savchenko
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)
Use caution when mapping Oracle data types for procedures and function parameters in SSMA
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 […]
Andrey Khudyakov (DB architect), Roman Muzyka (writer)
Oracle to SQL Server migration with SSMA: Converting materialized view with float type
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 […]
Andrey Khudyakov
Database migration with SSMA: Handling typical conversion errors
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 […]
Andrey Khudyakov, Roman Muzyka