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Unix migration: Migration

' ... It will be, in theory, it will be almost no work at all. We have a set of scripts essentially that the database was built from and that builds the tables..basically all the different database structure, they're fully supported in the latest version so all we do is run all the scripts we've got, that recreates the database structure, it recreates all the procedures on the database and then we use a bulk copy facility to copy all the data out and back in to the new one. Ten minutes work. That's..again we're fairly confident of that. If we have serious problems there then it will set us back, ???, but I've been to Sybase and I've talked to Sybase and they don't see any problems. ...

There's a few possible problems. If it doesn't like something in one of our scripts that will be problem, but not major and it's also very unlikely. The other thing that's very unlikely, but it's scaring me because it would be a major problem, is if we find that the old and the new versions of BCPs [bulk copy programs] won't talk to the same file structure. ... '

X042 page 001.03b (tape 04.2.02b) Matt Notes/Tape 14/06/94

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