Re: pumping data: mssql->pgsql

From: Matt (mat..ogicsquad.net)
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 22:35:08 EST

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    Tomi NA wrote:
    > On 2/16/06, Matt <mat..ogicsquad.net> wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >> Tomi NA wrote:
    >> > I'd like to transfer table structure and _data_ from a source mssql
    >> > database
    >> > to a postgresql database.
    >> > Has anyone here tried something like this? I have a feeling parts of
    >> > cayenne
    >> > code might be of help, but it's hard to think clearly after straight
    >> 16
    >> > hours of staring at the screen...any suggestions would be very
    >> welcome.
    >> >
    >>
    >> Hello,
    >>
    >> have you considered just dumping the structure and data, and inserting
    >> it
    >> into postgres, outside of cayenne?
    >>
    >> # mysqldump -u username -p password database_name > file.sql
    >>
    >> edit out you mysql badness
    >>
    >> # psql -d myDataBase (-a) -f file.sql
    >>
    >
    > That's the problem with names like mssql and mysql: they get mixed up
    > really
    > easily. Who ever came up with a name like SQL Server for RDBMS?!
    > Anyway, there's no simple way to dump structure and data from a MSSQL
    > database...well, actually, there is, but I have a 50MB script on my hands
    > now, which is very hard to work with (modify the syntax so that pgsql
    > doesn't complain about it)...and that still doesn't adress the finer
    > aspects
    > of the transition (object name case management, for one).
    >
    > Tomislav

    Aah.. my apologies!

    Matt



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