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Category: AWS Schema Conversion Tool
Accelerate your data warehouse migration to Amazon Redshift – Part 1
In this post (the first in a multi-part series), we describe new capabilities to automate your schema conversion, preserve your investment in existing scripts, reports, and applications, accelerate query performance, and reduce your overall cost to migrate to Amazon Redshift. Check out all posts in this series: Accelerate your data warehouse migration to Amazon Redshift […]
Convert the NUMBER data type from Oracle to PostgreSQL – Part 2
July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. An Oracle to PostgreSQL migration in the AWS Cloud can be a multistage process with different technologies and skills involved, starting from the assessment stage to the cutover stage. For more information about the migration process, see Database Migration—What Do You Need to Know Before You Start? […]
Migrating a commercial database to open source with AWS SCT and AWS DMS
You’re moving your applications to the AWS Cloud and you want to migrate from a commercial database engine to an open source database. One thought that may have rightfully crossed your mind is that changing database engines is not a simple task. Rather, it can be a complex, multi-step process that involves pre-migration assessments, converting […]
Validating database objects after migration using AWS SCT and AWS DMS
Database migration can be a complicated task. It presents all the challenges of changing your software platform, understanding source data complexity, data loss checks, thoroughly testing existing functionality, comparing application performance, and validating your data. AWS provides several tools and services that provide a pre-migration checklist and migration assessments. You can use the AWS Schema […]
Use virtual partitioning in the AWS Schema Conversion Tool
In this post, we look at how to use virtual partitioning to optimize your data warehouse migrations using AWS SCT. Virtual partitioning speeds up large table extraction using parallel processing. It is a recommended best practice for data warehouse migrations.
AWS Schema Conversion Tool blog series: Introducing new features in build 617
We are excited to introduce a new version of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). This version includes support for table-valued function conversions, additional information in server-level assessment reports, and more. For those of you who are new to AWS SCT, this tool helps convert your existing database schema from one database engine to […]
AWS Schema Conversion Tool introduces new features in build 616
We are excited to introduce a new version of AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) that includes support for PostgreSQL 10 partitioning, a new server-level Assessment Report, support for table-valued functions, and more. For those of you who are new to AWS SCT, this tool helps convert your existing database schema from one database engine […]
AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Schema Conversion Tool now support IBM Db2 LUW as a source
Managing and operating relational databases is a basic piece of maintaining an effective business. Relational databases come in many flavors—commercial (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2, and so on) and open source (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and so on). With innovation and improvements in the open-source database world and cloud computing platforms like AWS, many enterprises are […]
Introducing schema compare in AWS Schema Conversion Tool
The AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) makes your database migrations more predictable. It does this by automatically converting the source database schema and most of the database code objects to a format compatible with the target database. We’re excited to announce a new feature in AWS SCT to enable schema comparison and synchronization for […]
Schema Conversion Tool blog series: Introducing new features in build 613
The AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) helps convert your existing database schema from one database engine to another. You can convert from a relational OLTP schema or any supported data warehouse OLAP schema to Amazon RDS (for example, Amazon Aurora MySQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, among others). You can also convert from a relational […]