SybMigration


Introduction

The Migration Tool (SybMigrate) is used to copy (migrate) databases and the data in them from one Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) to another.  The main use of this tool will be to copy databases to an ASE installation with a large page size configured.

In earlier releases of ASE, the server’s page size was always fixed at 2K bytes. Any changes required for system catalogs was directly supported by an in-place upgrade process. In the 12.5 ASE release, a server installation can have various page sizes; 2K, 4K, 8K and 16K.

The Migration tool can be used to copy entire databases from 2K servers to server installations with larger page sizes.  It has the following features: