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Enhance Database Migration Efficiency 
CoSort and Flat Files Can Speed Data Movement
Challenges:
A common lifecycle event for databases is the migration to a new version (e.g. Oracle 9i to 10G) or a different system altogether (e.g. DB2 to SQL Server). Many migrations require more than export/import because they also involve changes to the hardware platform and operating system, schema, or dependent applications.

In addition to these qualitative requirements, there may be a quantitative issue: the sheer volume of data to be migrated can create a performance problem during unload, transform, or reload jobs.

Solutions:
CoSort tools or recommended techniques can improve unload performance; i.e. source tables into portable flat files. In files, CoSort gives you the ability to perform and combine data:

Transformation sort, join, aggregate, report, etc.
Conversion of both data and file types
Protection field-level encryption, masking
Generation safe test data in relational formats

CoSort maps fields to one or more load, BI, and other hand-off targets. Schema changes, new views, different query orders, and privacy protections are now possible in parallel, single-pass operations that do all of the above. Create new tables as needed, and load files faster pre-sorted on the longest index column (primary key).

See also:
Optimize Unload, Load and Reorg Performance
Solutions > Data Transformation
Solutions > Data Transformation > Data Type Conversion
Solutions > File Interchange (File Format Conversion)
Solutions > Test Data/Files > DB Population
Products > Fast Extract (FACT)
Products > CoSort > SortCL
Products > RowGen (Test Data)
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