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IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager

You're reading from   IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager Full of practical instructions and expert know-how, this book continues where the official manual ends, taking you from the basics into the more advanced features of IBM Cognos Framework Manager in clear, progressive steps.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849685764
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Terence Phillip Curran Terence Phillip Curran
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Model portability


Sometimes it is necessary to change your Framework Manager project to access data from a different database vendor, for example moving your database from Oracle to SQL Server.

There are several things that need to be considered when making such migrations. Unlike changing from one identical database to another on the same platform, it may not be sufficient to just change the data source connection information.

To move the model from one relational database to another, here are a few of the tasks you will need to carry out:

  • Review the Data Definition Language (DDL) used by the different databases to check for the portability of physical names and data. Not all databases support the same data types or precision of data; some databases may have restrictions on the length of table names, or may require the table names to be in lower- or uppercase.

  • If you have used any native SQL statements in your models you will need to check that any vendor specific syntax is changed or removed...

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