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Porting to DB2, Version 8.1 from Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise

Amyris Rada (arada@ca.ibm.com), DB2 Information Management Software, IBM
Amyris Arada
Amyris Rada is the team lead for the i2 Product Integration Center at the IBM Toronto Lab. She provides technical expertise and guidance to the i2 PIC team in connection with the integration of IBM products, assisting in planning and testing i2 products for DB2, WebSphere, and AIX products. Amyris has held several positions over the past 10 years as a database consultant, developer, and administrator, and has published several white papers through the IBM developerWorks DB2 Web site.

Summary:  This article introduces DB2 products and their capabilities, discusses porting databases and applications, and describes the most important aspects of porting applications from Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise to DB2 V8. It describes the differences between the two products in database options, data definition language (DDL), data modeling, SQL considerations, data conversion, and application conversion.

Date:  11 Jul 2005 (Published 17 Jul 2003)
Level:  Introductory

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This article introduces IBM® DB2® products and their capabilities, discusses porting databases and applications, and describes the most important aspects of porting applications from Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise to DB2 V8. It describes the differences between the two products in database options, data definition language (DDL), data modeling, SQL considerations, data conversion, and application conversion.

Highlights include:

  • Why you should port to DB2
  • Information on the DB2 product family
  • Sybase data types conversion to DB2
  • Administration issues
  • Implementation differences
  • Programming interfaces
  • DB2 CLI versus ODBC functions
  • Information on conversion tools

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Amyris Arada

Amyris Rada is the team lead for the i2 Product Integration Center at the IBM Toronto Lab. She provides technical expertise and guidance to the i2 PIC team in connection with the integration of IBM products, assisting in planning and testing i2 products for DB2, WebSphere, and AIX products. Amyris has held several positions over the past 10 years as a database consultant, developer, and administrator, and has published several white papers through the IBM developerWorks DB2 Web site.

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