PostGreSQL -> SQL server

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Jonathan Lam wrote:

HI all,

I am new to PostGreSQL and I need some help. We received a database
in PostGreSQL from another group within the company, and we are
planning to use ERWIN to Forward/Engineer it into a SQL Server
because one of our tool can only use SQL Server. Don't know if
anyone had done this kind of conversion before and if you have ran
into any problems.

Once you've created your schema on the Microsoft SQL Server side, you
can use DBI-Link to move data between PostgreSQL and SQL Server.

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/

Should you need to change that data and hand it back in PostgreSQL
form, you will be able to do it easily.

Is there someplace we can find out how SPAWAR or the Navy in general
is using PostgreSQL for non-classified projects?

Cheers,
D
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Jonathan Lam wrote:

HI all,

I am new to PostGreSQL and I need some help. We received a database
in PostGreSQL from another group within the company, and we are
planning to use ERWIN to Forward/Engineer it into a SQL Server
because one of our tool can only use SQL Server.

Have you investigated updating the tool so it can talk directly to
PostgreSQL? Might end up being less work (and more robust) than
migrating all the data from PG to SQL Server each time the other group
sends you the database.

--
Guy Rouillier

MS SQL Server has what used to be called "Linked Servers" which could
use ODBC to connect directly to other data sources. Your tool talking
to MS SQL Server would need to use fully qualified table names,
including the name of the "Linked Server" but it might work.