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Migrating Oracle databases to PostgreSQL on AWS, you often face challenges with converting system functions. Oracle has a rich set of built-in functions, and PostgreSQL doesn’t provide users with all of those. To support and simplify Oracle to PostgreSQL on AWS migrations, AWS Schema Conversion Tool provides users with an extension pack. After applying it to your Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL or Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database, you may use the functions, which emulate the behavior of Oracle’s system functions. You […]

The newest Migration Platform 1.5 version introduces a whole set of features. It brings an in-built Ora2Pg tool for easier migration, tree view filtering for schemas and databases, some important UI improvements, and others additions. Tap into the article to read more about the shiniest version of Migration Platform.

DB Best introduced a new version of its Migration Platform — an all-around program that enables all types of automated database migration. Read this blog post to learn more about the improvements for the key platform modes: Development and Migration projects.

One of our customers faced a challenging task converting the application’s business logic from Oracle PL/SQL to C#. This complex modernization project included the upgrade of application architecture and a move to the Azure cloud of this whole system. However, the most challenging part of the project was to convert a huge amount of PL/SQL code to C#. In this blog post, we share the DB Best approach to automating this conversion.

According to Forbes contributing writer Tom Taulli’s article COBOL Language: Call It A Comeback?, the recent demands on government agencies with old COBOL applications to deal with COVID-19 coupled with the lack of developers has added additional stress to people who have lost their jobs and can’t get their unemployment benefits. Let’s face reality, today’s developers have zero training in COBOL. At DB Best, we’ve developed a COBOL to Java conversion tool along with a test automation framework and CI/CD […]

Last updated in August 2020 The goal of DB Best blog is to deliver technical content on various completed projects and researches. Publishing over 100 blog posts per year, we pay great attention to the projects, related to the cloud data platforms in general, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in particular. Some of the AWS customers’ stories attract more attention than others, so, that’s why we decided to collect them in one place. We consider these articles must-read and super […]

Last updated in August 2020 Sharing our technical experience with the readers, we’ve reached a pretty impressive audience on our blog. So, it was pretty easy to distinguish the most popular AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) Support stories. Let’s jump right in and review the most valuable and really important DB Best blog posts on AWS DMS and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). We’ve got an impressive series of blog posts, where we talk about the features of […]

DB Best has released a new version of Database Compare Suite. This version supports Google’s BigQuery, a serverless and highly scalable cloud data warehouse platform. Also, the latest product release includes the updated Database Compare Suite user guide which now provides for convenient search and better user interaction. The list of updates includes: Database Compare Suite supports BigQuery Introducing the updated user guide Command-line interface improvements User interface improvements Read this blog post to learn more about the latest Database […]

AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) and Ora2PG allow for automating database migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL. Which tool would you prefer to use in real migration project for enterprise accounts? Read this blog post to find the answer.

The DB Best team completed multiple application modernization projects and discovered a set of best practices on this topic. Read the blog post to learn more about the application modernization path that is right for you!