RE: Changing from Informix to Oracle
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? And I'd dearly love to know about this migration tool. Really I would. >-----Original Message----- >From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] > >From: "Bill Border" <bill_border@agilent.com> > > > > From what I understand, the technical aspect of migrating > >is not a big deal. > >Oh, really? > > >Also, Informix has a migration tool to migrate > >from Oracle to Informix > >Oh, really? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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? > >And I'd dearly love to know about this migration tool. Really I would. > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] >> >>From: "Bill Border" <bill_border@agilent.com> >> > >> > From what I understand, the technical aspect of migrating >> >is not a big deal. >> >>Oh, really? >> >> >Also, Informix has a migration tool to migrate >> >from Oracle to Informix >> >>Oh, really? > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com