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51 views

Transfer data from DB2 to Oracle

I want to transfer data from an old DB2 system to a new Oracle database. How should I go about doing this?
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2answers
2k views

SQL Server Express vs. Oracle Express Edition vs DB2 Express-C

I have been trying to compare the features of the SQL Server Express, Oracle XE and DB2 Express-C, but find it difficult to compile all the differences into one place. Especially the current ...
1
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4answers
371 views

Backup and restore of RDBMS(Oracle, DB2, SQL Server) from Perl

What could be the best approach ? Till now could figure out the following (Oracle) Calling exp.exe and imp.exe utilities in Oracle client using Java and inturn call it from Perl. Calling exp.exe ...
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1answer
292 views

Does DB2 have equivalents for Oracle's UTL_ENCODE and UTL_RAW modules?

I'm looking for something similar to: utl_smtp.command(conn, utl_encode.base64_encode(utl_raw.cast_to_raw(<username>))); I couldn't find any reference among the DB2's system-defined modules ...
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1answer
232 views

Preloading a Java library in DB2, similar to ORACLE's loadjava

Edit to add details to clarify, based on Chris' comment: A Java stored procedure depends on external libraries. Locally it compiles successfully, since they are added to the classpath. But when ...
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1answer
263 views

Important distinctions between DBMSs [closed]

DBA is a career I'm strongly considering after school, but my limited experience mostly involves some PL/SQL Oracle web programming, some basic PHP/MySQL web pages, and some queries in SQL Server. ...
10
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1answer
205 views

Term for a one-row table?

Is there a specific term to describe a relation with a cardinality of one? I'm thinking particularly of RDBMS "special" one-row tables, for example, DUAL (Oracle), SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1 (DB2, Derby) and ...
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2answers
845 views

Is DB2 more reliable and stable compared to PostgreSQL or MySQL?

Always i was using MySQL or PostgreSQL for my projects such as Web/Desktop apps. I had data loss few times and thanks to old backup i was always up and running. But for a recent project for Airport, ...
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1answer
423 views

What specific tests need to be performed under Database migration from DB2 to Oracle?

Currently I am going to be testing (I am a Data Analyst) of a larger migration project where they are planning to migrate from DB2 to Oracle. My question may be little broader; however any ...