Author: Feng Cai

In this post, we delve into the best practices for migrating database objects from IBM Db2 z/OS to RDS for Db2 and walk you through how to validate these migrated database objects.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Db2 deployments in the cloud. Db2 is an IBM relational database that supports large-scale transactional and analytical workloads. Amazon RDS for Db2 handles time-consuming database administrative tasks, such as hardware provisioning, software patching, and backup management, freeing you […]

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how the IDENTITY column is used in different relational database management systems. In this post, we focus on how AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) handles tables with IDENTITY column. For the source database, AWS DMS captures the IDENTITY column as a regular column. For the target […]

In relational database management systems, an IDENTITY column is a column in a table that is made up of values generated automatically by the database at the time of data insertion. Although different systems handle the implementation of IDENTITY columns differently, they share some common characteristics. In most cases, the value of the IDENTITY column […]