Cloning existing database servers to migrate to virtual machine
Can we clone existing database servers with their contents and migrate to a virtual machine? We want to do this for two smaller database servers that are each on very expensive high level machines. One can be repurposed and the other can support both servers as vms.

Answer Question   |  April 25, 2011  4:22 PM
Clone database, Database migration, Database servers, Virtual machine manager, Virtual Machines

Excel date format
I am trying to copy data from one of our systems into Excel. Everything copies into Excel except the dates. My source data date format is MMM DD, YYYY (example Jul 14, 2004). I have tried changing the Excel from general to text and also tried changing the date formats.

Answer Question   |  September 22, 2010  1:15 PM
Database migration, Excel 2003, Excel 2003 functions, Excel Database

Moving CA process in Domino 8.5
Hi, our usual Domino administrator has recently left the company and I’ve inherited the admin role due to the fact that I was once a domino admin myself. The only problem is that I was an admin under domino 5/6 and we’re now running 8.5 ! One of my first tasks was to decommission the [...]

Answer Question   |  June 9, 2010  2:31 PM
CA, Certificate authority, Database migration, Domino 8.5

Oracle 9i Migration from Solaris to AIX
Hi, We have to migrate the Oracle 9i Database from Solaris 2.8 to AIX 6.1. There are two databases of 500 GB and 1.5 TB respectively to be migrated. I did go through an article from Maria Anderson (Production DBA, Autodesk at http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/answer/Migrating-Oracle9i-database-from-Solaris-to-AIX) but the article was from 10-09-2006. Is the solution provided still stands [...]

Answer Question   |  July 24, 2010  10:48 PM
Database migration, Migration, Oracle 9i, Solaris, Solaris to AIX

Data Junction 7.0
I’m attempting to use Data Juntion to create a reference table (DB4)from a proprietary database to use as input to a reporting appliation.  I need to create between 1 and 12 output records from each qualifying record from my database.  Is this possible in Data Junction?   Thanks!

Answer Question   |  December 21, 2009  8:13 PM
Data Junction, Database backup and recovery, Database migration

Transfer Data from one database to other.
Hi all, How to transfer datas from one database which has completelly different structure to other datebase with different structure? How to map these database? Is there any tool which does this? If so please suggest some free tool. Please help. Thank you all in advance.

Answer Question   |  October 15, 2009  5:56 AM
Database Management Systems, Database migration

Bulk Insert with collation change
Hi, One of our client wants to change the collation of the database and the collation of the columns from SQL_Latin1_CP1_CS_AS to SQL_Latin1_CP1_CI_AS to match the SQL Server setting. So we are moving the data from one database to another database on the same server. We are re creating the database with the database and [...]

Answer Question   |  May 30, 2009  1:48 AM
Bulk Inserts, Database collation, Database migration, SQL Server 2000, System tables

Oracle 9i migration
How to migrate Oracle 9i from Windows 2000 server to Solaris and vice-versa?

Answer Question   |  August 3, 2009  6:26 AM
Database migration, Oracle 9i migration, Oracle interoperability, Oracle migration, Oracle on Solaris, Oracle on Windows 2000 Server

Conversion of 32bit Informix to 64bit Informix
how to Convert 32bit informix to 64bit informix in hp-ux 11i

Answer Question   |  April 22, 2009  10:31 AM
Database migration, HP-UX 11i, IBM Informix 32-bit, IBM Informix 64-bit, Informix, Unix

How can we migrate Oracle database to Microsoft Access?
oracle to ms access

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2009  9:32 AM
Database migration, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Access import/export, Oracle import/export, Oracle migration

Finding which columns contain data in a table
I have to establish which columns in a table have data present. Each row has up to 100 columns, and not all of the columns contain data relating to the row. So in Table 1, Col1 Col2 Col3 Col4 Row 1 abc Row 2 abc Row 3 abc Would give a report showing that Table [...]

Answer Question   |  December 10, 2008  3:42 PM
columns, Data migration, Database migration, Oracle Database, Oracle Database to SQL Database Migration, SQL Database

Migrating data from Microsoft Access to SQL Server 2000
I want to transfer data from access to sql table and vice versa through windows service. so, plz help me.

Answer Question   |  December 9, 2008  8:00 AM
Database migration, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Access import/export, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2000 import/export, SQL Server import/export, Windows Services

backup and recovery
details about backup and recovery and suppose i was import data from oracle database. we can export to another database(not oracle)?

Answer Question   |  September 18, 2008  11:27 AM
Backup & recovery, Database backup and recovery, Database migration, Oracle import/export

SQL Database Migration Process
Hello, I would please like to know if someone could help me out with a database migration issue.I have a server and i need to migrate all of my data on my current database to a new database.It seems that the new database might be a little different in structure and the tables generally so [...]

Answer Question   |  September 10, 2008  10:17 PM
Database migration, SQL Database, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server migration

Oracle to SQL Server Migration – CURSOR type conversion
When I migrated a small database from Oracle to SQL Server using Microsoft SSMA, it converted CURSOR types to varchar(8000) **SSMA Warning** O2SS0259:CURSOR type was converted to varchar(8000) ** Do we just leave this as is or does it require attention. Thanks.

Answer Question   |  August 25, 2008  1:42 AM
Database migration, Oracle import/export, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server import/export, SSMA for Oracle

Oracle to SQL Server Migration – User Defined data types
Oracle database has two user defined types as the following: CREATE OR REPLACE type arrayType1 is table of int CREATE OR REPLACE type arrayType2 is table of varchar2(255) How do we represent these in SQL Server 2005?!! (Note: Microsoft SSMA fails to migrate these) Thanks

Answer Question   |  August 28, 2008  1:38 AM
Database migration, Oracle import/export, Oracle migration, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server import/export, SSMA for Oracle

Move/Copy System DB’s to new server in SQL 2005
Trying to move system DB’s to brand new server (really virtualized server). Server names are different. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer Question   |  August 4, 2008  5:12 PM
Database migration, SQL, SQL 2005, Virtual Servers

Moving a SQL database from one host to another
I need to help out in a move of a site coded in ASP/VBScript from one host we’re having major problems with to another host that has been highly reliable for us. They both offer all the same features needed for this site, but we don’t know how to move the SQL database along with [...]

Answer Question   |  May 8, 2008  2:54 AM
ASP, Database migration, SQL, SQL Database, VBScript, Web development

Data Migration Betrieve Tables to MS SQL Server 2005
Hi! could somebody help us advice on what to do and what to prepare if we are going to migration our current database Betrieve tables to MS SQL Server 2005? Thanks. Note: We are currently accessing the Betrieve tables thru PervasiveSQL v8 engine.

Answer Question   |  May 8, 2008  8:10 AM
Data migration, Database migration, Migration, Pervasive, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server migration

Migrate an Oracle database to SQL2005
I need to migrate an Oracle database to SQL2005. How many users have done this and what tool did you use? How effective was it? I know Microsoft has a migration tool, but just want to cover my bases as this is a very high profile project. Thanks all!!

Answer Question   |  May 14, 2008  12:37 PM
Database, Database migration, Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005