Re: Migrating from Oracle to Derby

From: Steve Howard <stevedhoward_at_gmail.com>
Date: 6 Jun 2006 05:51:48 -0700
Message-ID: <1149598308.846098.8220@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>

Laurenz Albe wrote:
> 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

That's interesting. Do you know why they released it as open source?

Thanks,

Steve Received on Tue Jun 06 2006 - 07:51:48 CDT