Data Movement Utilities

Before a database becomes useful for real work, it has to have data. Initially, this sounds like a really stupid statement, but it is really the place where we have to start in working with OnLine. The data does not just magically appear in the tables ready to be used in our applications. It has to be put there, most often by being imported from other non-OnLine sources.

Maybe your system is well established and the tables are already populated. You may be tempted to believe that data movement utilities are no longer of use to you. Wrong. You will have many instances in which these utilities will be used. You may need to upgrade your hardware to another machine. You may need to provide data dumps that can be read by another ...

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