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Saurabh Cloudas

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I'm writing a patch for the application, part of which involves executing a 5000 line sql script to make modifications to the database. The script is written using MSSQL syntax, however I was wondering if there is an application for automatically converting MSSQL syntax to that of Oracle and/or MySQL to save me from having to manually do it.

And even more concerning is that the databases support different locking mechanisms, so you may be able to get some tables and indexes in there, but you might introduce some issues that are very difficult to debug/replicate when you expose it into the wild.

You need as 3 experts to sort that lot out - one each of SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle. That or your database needs to run with a maximum of one user, with poor performance and very average database mechanisms.

I don't know of a database engine programming syntax converter. However, since you're working on a multi-database platform, I would consider using Enterprise Library and its application block. This will save you headaches, you got to trust me!

Another possible way is to bring these engines as close as possible to each other in ressemblance so that you may work more conveniently with the three of them. Thus, it requires you to analyze and to decide what function should be created where and why? This is hard work, seriously.

I'm writing a patch for the application, part of which involves executing a 5000 line sql script to make modifications to the database. The script is written using MSSQL syntax, however I was wondering if there is an application to automatically converting MSSQL syntax to that of Oracle and/or MySQL to save me having to manually do it.

It took a week of negotiations to receive such a file so I'm afraid to ask mySQL administrators to send me MS SQL SERVER compatible sql. Is there a way to convert mySQL dialect to MSSQL SERVER dialect automatically ?

SQLines provides tools and services to help you transfer data, convert database schema (DDL), views, stored procedures and functions, triggers, queries, embedded SQL statements and SQL scripts from MySQL to Microsoft SQL Server.

The easiest method would be to obtain a converter. There are multiple options available, but It might be difficult to find a good one: a lot of spammy options are available, all costing money ofcourse.

Adding a short exerpt:
If you check out the part called 'Using Data Loading'. The export file you allready have is probably fine, so you can go and skip 'Generating mysqldump Data Extract Scripts'.

Using the extracted scripts with SQL Query Analyzer
Generated scripts can now be used to create database objects and insert data. The preferred method to construct a database schema from MySQL scripts is to use the SQL Query Analyzer tool that is included with SQL Server 2000.
You can run SQL Query Analyzer directly from the Start menu, or from inside SQL Server Enterprise Manager. You can also run SQL Query Analyzer from the command prompt by executing the isqlw utility.
In order for the script to correctly execute there is some additional work required, which involves certain changes with the SQL dialect. Also, remember to walk through the SQL script and change the data types to SQL Server compatible types. The diagram below shows an imported script from mysqldump, it is important to note that the dump is an ASCII script file.

Also, MS-SQL doesn't use the ` (backtick) character, so you would need to get rid of all of them. However, some of the field/table names currently surrounded by backticks might be reserved words, in which case, you need to delimit those fields/tables with [fld_name] with brackets.

You could (re)create the MySQL database from the MySQL scripts you received and use a database conversion tool. I have used FullConvert in the past and works excellent. Supports many databases and is very fast!

Many companies are looking for open source database solutions to help shrink the IT budget by minimizing or avoiding support costs. One such solution would be migrating an Oracle database to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is a widely used open source RDBMS, and the PostgreSQL database model is very similar to Oracle. All PostgreSQL features are available at no cost or minimal cost. Also PostgreSQL professionals are less expensive to hire than Oracle DBAs.

However, migrating an Oracle database to PostgreSQL is not a straightforward task in an on-premises data center. In particular, it is challenging to migrate an entire Oracle schema with partitioning tables. This technical blog shares a simple method to migrate the Oracle schema to a PostgreSQL database using open source tools. It does not cover installation and configuration of PostgreSQL.

I have used the SQLines Data open source tool to do this migration. Once you create all required users (roles) and tablespaces and privileges in PostgreSQL, do the initial load using SQLines Data and exclude all partition tables.

Get the views, procedure and packages using an Oracle DDL generation command. Use the SQLine converter to convert Oracle code into PostgreSQL. Then get table and column comments scripts from Oracle and run on PostgreSQL.

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