Re: Changing from Informix to Oracle

From: sally.woolrich@comino.com (Sally Woolrich) > >On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:36:41 +0100, "Obnoxio The Clown" ><obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > > >From: bill_border@agilent.com > >> > >> Are you being sarcastic or asking a question? Years ago with tools > >> that are much less sophisticated than the one they have today we > >> migrated a few instances from Oracle to Informix. The Informix > >> people came in and it took about 1 day (10GB of data, 7000 tables). > >> When they we done we had a working Informix instance that had > >> the same support requirement as any other Informix instances that > >> we support. The migration converted datatype, etc. and the >application > >> worked without change. I'm serious. > > > >In a day? Damn, those Informix guys must be pretty damn fly to walk into >a > >site cold and do all that in one day. I wonder why other people (mostly >Paul > >Watson) reckon they're so dumb? > >Wow! It will take the best part of a weekend just to reorganise an >Informix database of a similar size. Just how did these Informix guys >do what they did? Why don't you put in for a consulting gig and find out...? :-) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com