Dan Beatty
Ph.D. Student
Computer Science 
Texas Tech University


>From: "Daniel Beatty" <[email protected]>
>To: "Tim Worman" <[email protected]>
>Date: November 13, 2009 02:01:32 PM PST
>Subject: Re: changing database servers
>
>Greetings Tim,
>Came close, but I count my blessing I did not have to go that far.   In my 
>case, I prepared for that eventuality by having a web service for the outgoing 
>database, another for the new one, and a grid application to copy from one to 
>the other.  
>
>This eventuality is difficult to prepare for without question.   Of course, 
>OpenBase and MySQL allow for core dumps and imports.   Thus if you have access 
>to either one to do that, then that would be the way to go.  It is definitely 
>quicker, but in some cases less stable.
>
>Later,
>
>Dan Beatty
>Ph.D. Student
>Computer Science 
>Texas Tech University
>
> 
>On Friday, November 13, 2009, at 01:54PM, "Tim Worman" <[email protected]> 
>wrote:
>>All:
>>
>>I may be in a situation for one of my apps (maybe more) where we will be 
>>switching database servers. If we did this the change would involve moving 
>>from OpenBase to MySQL. It would also involve transferring BLOB data. So, I 
>>have some questions I want to throw out related to this:
>>
>>1. For those that have undertaken a similar task, what method was used to 
>>move the data?  a WO-ish method?
>>2. Some of the tables/entities that I will be moving to MySQL would hopefully 
>>still have relationships to entities in models that refer to the OpenBase 
>>database. I've seen this:
>>
>>http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/mail/524483
>>
>>It looks for what I'm looking to do this would probably be OK. Eventually, we 
>>may move everything to MySQL so I want to get my ducks in a row now.
>>
>>Tim Worman
>>UCLA GSE&IS
>>
>>
>>
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