Hi,

so which free cross db tool do you recommend ? because i have been searching for cross db tool for sometime. another thing is that most of the cross db sync tool requires source firebird db and target mssql2005 db has the same tables structure. My source firebird database and target mssql2005 database has silght difference. at the target db i have added one field to the tables to differentiate data coming from from different firebird db. pls advise thanks

Regards,
Halim

Thomas Steinmaurer <ts@...> wrote: Hello,

> Thanks for your info. I want to do two -way process consolidating data from firebird databases to one mssql2005 database and then from mssql2005 transfer back data to firebird databases. so do i need to use both kettle/talend and intergration services ?

In this case, you probably need more than an ETL tool, because two-way
usually means some kind of conflict resolution, ... You are more looking
for a cross-db replication thingy.

> inside the feature components for integration service it has mssql2000 dts designer component do i need that ?
> i already have the dts for mssql2005 but it is still not showing in the mssql2005 ?

I don't know. Sorry.

> my firebird database consist of chinese charater in unicode_fss , does mssql2005 able to display that after being transfer using kettle/talend ? and likewise does firebird able to display the chinese character from mssql2005 after the data being transfered back ? thanks

MSSQL is able to store unicode data. Check out the NCHAR, NVARCHAR data
types. For displaying unicode, this is a different story, because you
development environment / language needs to support that.

Any ETL tool should be able to transfer unicode data correctly. As
Kettle is written in Java, I'm pretty sure it does, although I haven't
tried it.

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