Re: Migrating from Oracle to Derby

From: Laurenz Albe <invite_at_spam.to.invalid>
Date: 06 Jun 2006 06:56:53 GMT
Message-ID: <1149577012.652917@proxy.dienste.wien.at>

Steve Howard <stevedhoward_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Raga wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is there any freeware/shareware tool to help in migrating from Oracle
>>>> to Derby ?
>>>
>>> If there were, I doubt an Oracle newsgroup would be the place to find
>>> it.  Try one of the Apache groups.
>>
>> If the question is oracle related why this newsgroup is probably as
>> good a place as any to ask.
>>
>> What is Derby?

>
> It is an RDBMS written exclusively in java under the apache project
> umbrella.

It is IBM's cloudscape released as open source. I would recommend looking for an Oracle -> DB2 migration tool, because for obvious reasons Derby is syntactibally and semantically very close to DB2.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe Received on Tue Jun 06 2006 - 01:56:53 CDT