FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <bill_d_thompson AT ml.com>]

Hi Roger,

I first got into freeTDS when working on the port of a Sybase system to
SQL Server.
Our big problem was the UNIX client code that we had, and how to get it
to work with SQL server.
I stumbled across freeTDS as a possible solution, and the rest is
history.

My Client code used dblib, but made great use of the dblibrary bcp api,
which at the time wasn't implemented in freeTDS.
I did a lot of work on getting those functions to work, and freebcp just
came as a natural consequence.

As regards data migration, I had 450Gb of Sybase data to migrate to SQL
in a 24hr time slot.

I ended up writing the forerunner of the "datacopy" program, which now
comes with freeTDS, to do the job.

It migrates all the data from a table in one server (Sybase) to another
congruent table in another Server (SQL).
It uses the bcp api to get the data into the target table, and has the
added advantage of doing minimal data conversion, i.e from datetime to
string and back again, that bcp-ing to/from files would involve. Oh, and
there's no intermediate files either, so no need to worry about
field/record delimiters.

It looks like this program might be "the johnny for the job" for you...

If you need any help at all with Sybase-SQL migration, I'll be happy to
help. 
I've also done a lot of work on migrating Sybase stored procedure code
to SQL Server as well.


good luck,

Bill



-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Roger L. Reid
Sent: 29 March 2006 19:16
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: Re: [freetds] Data porting homegrown tools and techniques (was
RE:freebcp: add support for escaping characters?)


I meant to say "folks who are using FreeTDS", not just FreeBCP.  By me,
it's the dblib that is golden, FreeBCP is a bonus (and a great one).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger L. Reid 

> I would like to hear and share more with folks who are using 
> FreeBCP specifically for cross-platform support.  
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