Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration

2007-01-23 Thread Shoaib Mir
In order to move data and tables from MS SQL Server to PostgreSQL, use the MS SQL Server DTS wizard and gave it the ODBC for PostgreSQL as the target database. -- Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com) On 1/23/07, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon,

[GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration

2007-01-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a customer who is wants to migrate his MSSQL database to PostgreSQL and we'll replace his application ASP with PHP. The issues should be limited as there are no stored procedures or triggers in MSSQL, just structure and data should be all that is needed to migrate. I have never migrated

Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Rosenthal
Wanting to do something similar I recently submitted a large patch to the mysql2pgsql project. It will now handle conversion of a mysqldump file complete with data for the quite large and diverse DB I was using it with. I'm sure there are still corner cases, but you should give it a try:

Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration

2007-01-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 16:32 +, Peter Rosenthal wrote: Wanting to do something similar I recently submitted a large patch to the mysql2pgsql project. It will now handle conversion of a mysqldump file complete with data for the quite large and diverse DB I was using it with. I'm sure there

Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration

2007-01-22 Thread Ted Byers
pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:05 AM Subject: [GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration I have a customer who is wants to migrate his MSSQL database to PostgreSQL and we'll replace his application ASP with PHP. The issues should be limited as there are no stored procedures

Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration

2007-01-22 Thread Tony Caduto
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Any docs or other helpful info is welcome, just looking for some advise. One think I would recommend is to make sure when creating the new table structure that you make sure not to use capitalized object names. Because MS SQL server can be case insensitive I

Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration

2007-01-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 12:13 -0500, Ted Byers wrote: Is the original application ASP or SP.NET? It makes a difference, particularly if it was developed to take advantage of ASP.NET 2. It might conceivably be ASP.NET 3, but since that is brand new I can't see anyone paying to replace an