Re: Rdb to Oracle tools

John Nunnington wrote:
>
> Bob Eisner wrote:
> >
> > Judie Stroup wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, some of us are actually converting from Rdb to Oracle.
> > > And one of my coworkers is looking for a tool to make this
> > > task easier. Optimally, we'd like a tool which would extract
> > > objects (i.e. tables) and load them into Oracle (like a tool
> > > which would generate an IMP-compatible dump of the Rdb database
> > > which could be directly loaded into Oracle.
> > >
> > > We're using Oracle 7.3 and Rdb 5.X (yes, I know, way behind).
> > >
> > > Any help or hints would be appreciated. Email to...
> > >
> > > judie.stroup_at_lmco.com
> >
>
> Strange how you perceive that while you currently use Rdb 5 and openly
> admit that you are way behind and yet, I assume, you think that moving
> to Oracle 7.3 will move you forwards? perhaps you could enlighten the
> rest of this group as well as myself as to your rationale.

We've been using Oracle and Rdb for approximately the last 10 years, originally both on DEC hardware. Approximately 4 years ago we made a strategic decision to move from DEC/VMS to HP/Unix and the company selected Oracle as the strategic database. So, while we continue to upgrade our HP and Oracle licenses, we haven't been putting any effort into staying current on the DEC/Rdb side of things. We are now in the process of migrating our remaining Rdb application to Oracle.

I'm not here to argue about which is a better database, Oracle or Rdb (especially in an Rdb newsgroup ;)). For us, it's been mostly an economic decision since the company funds Oracle licenses at the corporate level. Also, from a support POV, it makes more sense to have a single OS and database.

Again, no database bashing was intended. Received on Tue Aug 26 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST