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Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation

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Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation

Overview of this book

The book covers data migration, data consolidation, and data integration, the three scenarios that are typically part of the information integration life cycle. Organizations typically find themselves migrating data to Oracle and either later, or at the same time, consolidating multiple database instances into a single global instance for a department, or even an entire company. The business savings and technical benefits of data consolidation cannot be overlooked, and this book will help you to use Oracle's technology to achieve these goals. This highly practical and business-applicable book will teach you to be successful with the latest Oracle data and application integration, migration, information life-cycle management, and consolidation products and technologies.In this book, you will gain hands-on advice about data consolidation, integration, and migration using tools and best practices. Along the way you will leverage products like Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle GoldenGate, and SQL Developer, as well as Data Hubs and 11gR2 Database. The book covers everything from the early background of information integration and the impact of SOA, to products like Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator. By the end you'll have a clear idea of where information and application integration is headed and how to plan your own projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation
Credits
About The Author
About the Contributing Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Using Oracle SQL Developer Version 3.0 for migrations to Oracle


Using Oracle SQL Developer for migrations has several advantages. One of the most important advantages being that it is FREE and can be downloaded from Oracle Technology Network (otn.oracle.com) for immediate use. Secondly, it can be used to assess the source database complexity factors in terms of object count, functionality usage such as temp tables, result sets, error handling, transaction management, and so on. SQL Developer also provides many reports tailored for migration effort estimation.

SQL Developer is being continuously enhanced to reduce the effort required for porting the applications to Oracle. SQL Developer 3.0 is capable of scanning applications written leveraging Sybase CT-Lib/DB-Lib, Java, and Perl for SQL statements are incompatible with Oracle and optionally convert them to Oracle. The best part of this feature is the ability to enhance this feature to include any other language/construct through a rule-based...