UniData to SQL Conversion Don’t lose your Informer investment… PRESENTER: Tim Nicholson | Director of Customer Services, Entrinsik| March 6, 2012

Problem Datatel clients are migrating from UniData to SQL Large investment in Informer reports Unidata is to SQL what oil is to water Different structure Different query language

Solution Write a tool that migrates as much of the mapping and report metadata as possible.

Challenges Multivalues Computed Columns / I-Descriptors

UniData SQL Multivalues PERSON PERSON @ID FIRST.NAME LAST.NAME PERSON_LS PERSON_ID POS WHERE_USED WHERE.USED PEOPLE_EMAIL PERSON_ID POS PERSON_EMAIL_ADDRESSES PERSON_EMAIL_TYPES PERSON.EMAIL.ADDRESSES PERSON.EMAIL.TYPES

Computed Columns/I-Descriptors Become T-SQL functions Not associated with a table Take primary key as parameter Once mapped, treat like any other property Available in 4.3 Can use in SQL Block (4.2.8) as well

Limitations Cannot convert TCL/ECL Select/Returning Remote links

Informer on SQL So what’s different? Links Criteria Types No Savelist Any common value Criteria Types Simple, compound, Where clause No Savelist No Normalization

Informer on SQL So what’s different? Data is normalized

Thank you! Any questions?