Today companies have to deal with different databases. It could be because of upgradation or recieving the data from their clients or suppliers in different formats. The IT managers often recieve the data in CSV or delimited format from various sources. The coders have to face lot of difficulty in writing programs to convert the information into their native databases. The trouble arises because of different fields structure and different formats. A lot of time programming hours is spent in rewriting programs to suit different formats.
At these times a tool which converts the information from several information sources into native databases becomes very handy. It will save a lot of time of software engineers in converting information from different data sources into their native databases.
There are numerous tools available on the net which does information conversion or migration. One has to spend significant amount of time in selecting a good tool because some tools do information conversion only by creating new tables without the ability to load the information into existing tables, which is the necessity in most cases. And, some tools do not support any scheduling. Scheduling feature is really useful if you have to load the information regularly from the same data source. In the absence of scheduling feature one has to run data migration jobs manually which again wastes precious time of IT staff.
Another thing you have to consider is select a tool which can do multiple conversions. That is the tool should be able to handle multiple databases such as MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MS Access, Foxpro, CSV or Delimited text files and etc and do conversions between any of the database to any other database. When you search the net the choice becomes very norrow because there are not many tools which do multiple conversion. This is quite useful to you if you get data from some new data source and the existing tool will do the conversion. Otherwise, you have to purchase a new tool which to do the new conversion when you purchase single conversion software.
While opting a good information migration tool consider these points before zeroing on the good tool.
