Redbook Abstract
DB2 UDB V7.1 Porting Guide, SG24-6128-00
  Abstract
This IBM Redbook is intended to help database administrators and system designers perform database and application conversion from Sybase to DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) Version 7.1. It contains a description of the conversion process and suggestions on how the mapping of database features may be accomplished.

The target audience of this redbook is database administrators and system designers with background in Sybase and/or DB2 UDB for AIX.

This book was written from the AIX operating system perspective, and some commands shown in this book may not be available on other operating systems. However, all sections in this book except some operating system specific commands and operations should be applicable for database systems on non-AIX operating systems such as Solaris and Windows NT.

  Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Project scenario
Chapter 3. Conversion process
Chapter 4. Database structure and data types
Chapter 5. Database conversion
Chapter 6. Data conversion
Chapter 7. Application conversion
Appendix A. Conversion tools
Appendix B. Sybase and DB2 UDB terms
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Publish date
2000-12-12
Lead author
Tetsuya Shirai
Other authors
Kenji Horino
John Russell
John V. Partridge Jr.
Art Sammartino
ISBN number
0738419400
Number of pages
280