Brute Force Migration


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Brute Force Migration
	Chapter 3. General Migration Strategies

Brute Force Migration

The brute force method of data migration consists of creating delimited text files for each table (account, user, service, payhist) and loading the data into the database using the LOAD command. The most problematic issue is making sure that the relationships between the tables are maintained.

Figure 3.1. Database Schema for Importing Data


Programmatic Migration		Using createcust

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