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Tomas Lanczos
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:02 pm    Post subject: RE: migration from Sybase to Postgres Reply with quote

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On 7 Jul 2006 12:50:22 -0000, lanczos@t-zones.sk
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What is the most appropriate way to migrate a database form
Sybase (SQL Anywhere 5.504) to Postgres? I found some
shareware of freeware migration tools on the net, which are
the best? Is it faster to use any of them them or just simply
do it manually?

An excellent conversion tool is actually microsoft sql
server. It can convert via dts transformation to any odbc
source to any other odbc source if you have a windows machine
to do the conversion and a copy of the database.

Do You mean the SQL Server Express for free?

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barring that, I would just dump sybase into sql statements
(does it support that?) and massage the text and pipe into psql.

Following my quick look into it does not support it.

Tomas

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:26 pm    Post subject: Re: migration from Sybase to Postgres Reply with quote

On 7 Jul 2006 12:50:22 -0000, lanczos@t-zones.sk <lanczos@t-zones.sk> wrote:
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What is the most appropriate way to migrate a database form Sybase (SQL Anywhere 5.504) to Postgres? I found some shareware of freeware migration tools on the net, which are the best? Is it faster to use any of them them or just simply do it manually?

An excellent conversion tool is actually microsoft sql server. It can
convert via dts transformation to any odbc source to any other odbc
source if you have a windows machine to do the conversion and a copy
of the database.

barring that, I would just dump sybase into sql statements (does it
support that?) and massage the text and pipe into psql.

merlin

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Tomas Lanczos
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:50 pm    Post subject: migration from Sybase to Postgres Reply with quote

What is the most appropriate way to migrate a database form Sybase (SQL Anywhere 5.504) to Postgres? I found some shareware of freeware migration tools on the net, which are the best? Is it faster to use any of them them or just simply do it manually?

Thanks

Tomas
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