MySQL to PostgreSQL

Every experienced database administrator knows that migration between different DBMS is a hard task requiring a lot of efforts. This thesis is especially suitable for such powerful database management systems as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Running database migration manually may cause losing data integrity or data corruption due to human factor. Migration of such complicated entities as stored procedures, functions and triggers can hardly be fully automated, however rest of MySQL database objects can be easily migrated into PostgreSQL format using special tools.

There are many software vendors offer solutions to automate MySQL to PostgreSQL database migration. It is important to know what are the key factors for choosing the particular tool among others:

The converter must support all modern versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL for Windows and Unix/Linux platforms
The migration tool must support the most popular forks of source and target DBMS such as MariaDB, Percona as well as cloud variations like Azure for MySQL, Amazon RDS and Heroku
The product must migrate all primary database objects such as schemas, table definitions, data, indexes, constraints and views
MySQL to PostgreSQL converter must implement high performance database migration algorithm based on low-level techniques of access to the source and target DBMS
The product must allow to merge or synchronize existing PostgreSQL database with MySQL data
MySQL to PostgreSQL converter must support filtering data to convert via SELECT-queries
The converter must provide option to convert MySQL database into PostgreSQL script file for situations when there is no direct connection to PostgreSQL server is available
The product must support command line to script and schedule database migration procedure

Intelligent Converters, software vendor specializing in database migration field since 2001, offers a tool to migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL meeting all requirements listed above. Moreover, the product stores all conversion settings into profile in order to simplify next use. It provides user friendly wizard-style interface to make migration procedure easy for users having no strong skills in database field. Also, MySQL to PostgreSQL converter allows to migrate results of SELECT-queries. This flexible capability can solve a number of tasks:

Extract and rename particular columns, for example SELECT FName as FirstName, LName as LastName FROM MyTable
Bypass rows containing NULLs, for example SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE not isnull(Comments)
Filter rows to convert, for example SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE ID > 1000

MySQL to PostgreSQL database migration tool has trial version for evaluation purpose. This version converts only 50 records per table and does not convert foreign keys and views. After evaluating trial version, customers can purchase full version that does not have those limitations. The product can be customized by specialists of Intelligent Converters according to user specific needs.

Learn more about MySQL to PostgreSQL converter at https://www.convert-in.com/mysql-to-postgres.htm.