migration

(Yet another) What's the best conversion from an SVN repository to HG repository(ies)?

My company has a large Subversion (SVN) repository, and for various reasons, we are considering migrating to Mercurial (HG). I'm hoping to learn the "best practice" ideas for our situation. Our SVN repository is fairly monolithic, and looks something like this: trunk Python_Project_1 Python_Project_2 Python_Shared_Code Flex_Code ObjC...

How to guerilla VC with git while forced to use CVS at work?

Hi, My place of work currently uses CVS. A git migration is planned but it might be a long time coming. In the mean time I have a one-man project, and have decided to use git for my own personal development. The branching, staged commits, rebasing etc. has been fantastic! But unfortunately at some point this project, and its history, ne...

Incremental development with subsonic

I'm in the process of starting up a web site project. My plan is to roll out the site in a somewhat rudimentary form first and then add to the site functionality along the way. I'm using Subsonic 3 for my DAL, and I'm expecting the database will go through multiple versions as the sites evolve. This means I'll need some kind of versioni...

JDBC SQL Server Database Migrations

I'm working on a Java web application (Adobe Flex front-end, JPA/Hibernate/BlazeDS/Spring MVC backend) and will soon reach the point where I can no longer wipe the database and regenerate it. What's the best approach for handling changes to the DB schema? The production and test databases are SQL Server 2005, dev's use MySQL, and unit t...

How do I migrate my current site's users table ( mysql+md5 passwords ) to my new django postgres setup?

I currently have a news website setup in PHP/MYSQL that's a bit old and I'm in the process of migrating it to a new django site that uses Postgresql 8.4 and Psycopg2. Django's admin models contain a auth_user table and I suspect this is the table I will need to insert all my user rows into. Q#1: I should just rely on this already made ...

Migrating from VBA Excel 2003

I have a series of big excel files that work like a program, but I hate beeing tied up (stuck in VBA for excel 2003), so... Whats the best way to implement a gui over a excel vba program (office 2003)? (are there any tools for that... I want to move away from the office suite, but still have it in the background) Or what's the easiest ...

Is it worth migrating to NHibernate 2.x from NHibernate 1.2?

We are using nHibernate 1.2 in a system which is not performing good. Will there be some performance improvement if we migrate to latest version of nHibernate? Overall is it a good idea to migrate to the latest version of nHibernate? EDIT: I want to use following features to improve performance. 1. Second level cache. 2. Joined Tab...

WinForm - WPF integration; Piece by Piece

I have a medium sized WinForm App (1 Form that hosts 40 user controls) that we use in house. I want to migrate over to WPF but I cannot do a Mass ReRelease. My idea was, for now, to recreate the App 1 User Control at a time in WPF and have that hosted in the existing WinForm App. I would make them look nearly identical, at this poin...

Database schemas WAY out of sync - need to get up to date without losing data

The problem: we have one application that has a portion which is used by a very small subset of the total users, and that part of the application is running off of a separate database as well. In a perfect world, the schemas of the two databases would be synced up, but such is not the case. Some migrations have been run on the smaller ...

Moving from XP to Windows 7

This week I’m going to try and start the move from Windows XP to Windows 7 on my development PC at work. I’ve downloaded the Windows Easy Transfer app for going from XP to Win7; that should take care of My Documents. My concern is all of the development environment. In particular I’m concerned about re-establishing things like my Wind...

Is Django the Best solution for me, if so please help me

What is the easiest (and fastest) way to migrate (+-) a simple data driven "app" to a Framework that does most of the work for me (like forms, add , remove). What I have is a simple Excel 2003 for Stock managemment. Quite simple, 3 tables: 1 for **Information **on the product. 1 with product code, type of movemment (IN ou OUT), quan...

weblogic 10.3 custom authenticator

we are migrating weblogic from 8.1 to 10.3. We had custom authenticator provider. Is there any standard way to migrate custom authenticator from 8.1 to 10.3? In fact, I could not find the wlManagement.jar in 10.3. I did find a wlManagement.jar file but it only contains .java files, no .class files. Please advise. ...

Version of SQLite used in Android?

Reason: Im wondering how to handle schema migrations. The newer SQLite versions support an "ALTER TABLE" SQL command which would save me having to copy data, drop the table, recreate table and re-insert data. ...

How to run a WAM project in LAMP

I done my project in WAMP. Is it possible to run in LAMP also? I used the XML DOM for data storing instead of MYSQL. If it is possible what we have to do for run in LAMP. ...

Migrating to Oracle

We are using a JEE application and we are right now using Informix DB.Our code hits the DB with queries like "select first 10 * from test" Now as far as I know Oracle does not support 'first 10 *' kind of statements.We have more than 1000 queries like this.Should we manually change this or can have some manual customization? ...

MIgrating to Oracle

Continuation to my previous question Migrating to oracle Is there any tool or script to convert SQL procedures in Informix into Oracle? ...

Smartest way to import massive datasets into a Rails application?

I've got multiple massive (multi gigabyte) datasets I need to import into a Rails app. The datasets are currently each in their own database on my development machine, and I need to read from them and create rows in tables in my Rails database based on the information they contain. The tables in my Rails database will not be exactly th...

Achieve Rails-style migrations in MS Access VBA application

This is a simple way to do Rails-style migrations in a VBA application. Just add additional migrations like migration(name, sql_string, database) to run_migratons and call run_migrations somewhere in the beginning of your execution. Function migrate(signature As String, sql As String, dbs As DAO.database) Dim rs As DAO.Recordset ...

Rails: Cannot add :precision or :scale options with change_column in a migration?

This seems to have been asked before: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1402547/rails-decimal-precision-and-scale But when running a change_column migration for :precision or :scale they don't actually affect the schema or database, but db:migrate runs without errors. My migration file looks like this: class ChangePrecisionAndScaleO...

Symfony Migration - Remove mandatory from column

Hi there! I would like to cancel the mandatory of a field of my current schema. How can I accomplish that with a symfony migration? Thanks in advance, Best regards! ...