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...