A SURVEY ON EXISTING DBASE DATA TO ORACLE CONVERTER

BY PRIYA ARUNDHATI
UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROF(DR)P.K PATTNAIK.

OBJECTIVE OF THE ANALYSIS

To find out the efficient dbase to oracle converter among the available converters.

ORACLE VS DBASE
Oracle is a client server database where as dbase is a local data base. Oracle requires DBMS but dbase does not require DBMS. Oracle needs high set up & configuration but dbase needs low set up & configuration.

Performance of Dbase

Unable to perform under load. Unable to handle large datasets. Load limits:
About 10-20 users maximum

Dataset size limits:

About 100-500k records maximum and/or About 1-5MB total size

Cannot be improved with hardware

Performance of Dbase

Performance

Database Size and/or Number of Users

Data Integrity and Dbase

Easily corrupted -Corruption amplified under load

Memo fields sensitive to corruption

Concurrency
Multiple users can update same data Concurrency problems do not generate errors

Transaction control
No simultaneous commit No rollback capability

Performance in Oracle Databases

Load limits:
Hundreds or Thousands of Users

Database size limits:

Millions of records Size limited only by available storage

Scaleable with hardware

Performance in OracleDatabase

Performance

Database Size and/or Number of Users

Data Integrity in oracle Databases

Corruption Management Optimistic Record Locking Managed Indexes Concurrency Control Transaction Control
Transaction Log tracks all changes by all users Commits multiple changes simultaneously Rollback for incomplete or inaccurate updates

About the converters

DBF VIEWER 2000 DBF CONVERTER 1.5 BY Hi-base GROUP DBF to SQL VERSION 1.51

Performance Analysis
22 21.5 21 20.5 20 19.5 19 1st Qtr conv-1 conv-2 conv-3

Conclusion
By studying the 3 converter available in todays market we conclude that though the converter are sound good theoretically but not practically 100% efficient. So further research is needed to develop dbase to oracle converter which does not require any manual work and convert 100% data from dbase to oracle, so that many organizations can use them effectively.

Thank You