Re: Changing from Informix to Oracle

Obnoxio The Clown 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? But how many days of planning? > And I'd dearly love to know about this migration tool. Really I would. I don't think it's a tool as such, more of a consulting package, well.., a bunch of consultants who get it working. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |//////// /| | http://www.informix.com http://www.informixhandbook.com |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |This email will self-destruct in |/// / ////| | |10 sec. If you received this email |// / /////| | |in error, sorry about the mess. |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+