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For automation purposes Oracle to MySQL converter includes console version called O2SAGENT.EXE. Find this file in the installation folder. The console version of Oracle to MySQL converter can be run directly from command line or called from any script. O2SAGENT.EXE supports the following parameters:
--case_sense | make all CHAR and VARCHAR fields case sensitive | |
--charset=... | MySQL character set | |
--dest=... | MySQL database or dump file name | |
--dump | convert Oracle database into dump file | |
--engine=... | MySQL storage engine (MyISAM, MEMORY, InnoDB, BerkeleyDB, ARCHIVE, FEDERATED, etc). Please refer to MySQL documentation for the further information. | |
--help | display help message and exit | |
--logfile=... | path to the logfile where execution traces will be written | |
--mode=... | how to process an existing MySQL database (0 - overwrite the entire database, 1 - overwrite existing tables only, 2 - skip existing tables, 3 - merge, 4 - synchronize) | |
--mysqlh=... | MySQL server IP address or network name | |
--mysqlu=... | MySQL user name | |
--mysqlp=... | MySQL user password | |
--myport=... | MySQL port | |
--oraclh=... | Network name or IP address of Oracle server | |
--oraclu=... | Oracle user name | |
--oraclp=... | Oracle user password | |
--oraport=... | Oracle port | |
--profile=... | path to the file to load conversion settings from | |
--silent | use this option to disable program output | |
--skip_idx | skip converting indexes | |
--src=... | Oracle database name | |
--tab_def | convert table definitions only | |
--tab_file=... | name of the file containing table names to convert (one table name per line) | |
--view_owned | work with tables owned by the specified Oracle user only |
In the following example the program converts Oracle database "db1" into MySQL database "db1_from_oracle" on the remote MySQL server "mysqlhost":
O2SAGENT.EXE --src=db1 --dest=db1_from_oracle --mysqlh=mysqlhost --mysqlu=administrator --mysqlp=the_passsword --oraclh=localhost --oraclu=scott --oraclp=tiger
Table names file should be formatted as follows:
Table_1
Table_2
...
Table_N
Notes:
This parameter specifies correct encoding of text values in the destination MySQL database. It can have one of the following values:
value | Description | value | Description | |||
big5 | Big5 Traditional Chinese | dec8 | DEC West European | |||
cp850 | DOS West European | hp8 | HP West European | |||
koi8r | KOI8-R Relcom Russian | latin1 | cp1252 West European | |||
latin2 | ISO 8859-2 Central European | swe7 | 7bit Swedish | |||
ascii | US ASCII | ujis | EUC-JP Japanese | |||
sjis | Shift-JIS Japanese | hebrew | ISO 8859-8 Hebrew | |||
tis620 | TIS620 Thai | euckr | EUC-KR Korean | |||
koi8u | KOI8-U Ukrainian | gb2312 | GB2312 Simplified Chinese | |||
greek | ISO 8859-7 Greek | cp1250 | Windows Central European | |||
gbk | GBK Simplified Chinese | latin5 | ISO 8859-9 Turkish | |||
armscii8 | ARMSCII-8 Armenian | utf8 | UTF-8 Unicode | |||
ucs2 | UCS-2 Unicode | cp866 | DOS Russian | |||
keybcs2 | DOS Kamenicky Czech-Slovak | macce | Mac Central European | |||
macroman | Mac West European | cp852 | DOS Central European | |||
latin7 | ISO 8859-13 Baltic | cp1251 | Windows Cyrillic | |||
cp1256 | Windows Arabic | cp1257 | Windows Baltic | |||
binary | Binary pseudo charset | geostd8 | GEOSTD8 Georgian | |||
cp932 | SJIS for Windows Japanese | eucjpms | UJIS for Windows Japanese |
Please refer to MySQL documentation to better understand the concept of character sets and collations.