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Article #188Re: convert or federate
From: Bob Long
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:33
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 05:33
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http://www.db2mag.com/db_area/archives/2002/q1/winter.shtml LKH wrote: > Hi all, > > I am doing study research on convert or federate database. Which would be > the best or better 'method'? I will also invertigate the costs, advantages > and disadvantages of both options. > > The senario is such: > 2 companies are to be merged. But both companies have databases dealing with > similar data to support the same business functions.Data is similar but all > table, field and format is different. Therefore the company can either > convert one or both databases to a common format or can interface to both of > them through a gateway. > > I am this is not confusing. > If you of any documents, urls, white papers, technical papers that concerns > with the above please forward them to me. Thanks a lot. Please also advice > on the above. Your opinions are very valuable to me. > > Again thank you very much for your time. > > KH
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