Re: porting data from oracle to mysql

[manish singh]

thanks for the inputs Joshua and frank

i would fit in the first category frank
i have already created batch process to read data from oracle into a file
which would eventually contain insert statements and another set of batch jobs to
run that file into mysql.

the problem with this project iam working on is that it needs to be done with a 0 budget so i cannot buy wisdomforce. i can only use a 30 day trial version which is not acceptable to us.

so considering the process i mentioned above, what do you guys think
is it a good enough process? i mean we will eventually move maybe a couple hundred
tables from the 3 oracle databases( not everything is required) .

also the only thing that iam worried about is data transformation and error handling.
in the test system i created for one table , i did the data transformation for the particular fields in my sql query itself. is there a way mysql can help me here
does it have any process that can do data transformation for me automatically?
and error handling, as iam just using SQL scripts iam not able to conjure up a design
which would help me trap errors thrown by mysql and maybe display them or create a log file which would maybe mailed to the concerned people later

i would appreciate your reponse

thanks