migration

How should I proceed to upgrade from TFS2008 to TFS2010

Hi, We have a TFS2008 server with multiple team projects (about 20) What is the best way to migrate to TFS2010 without losing the history. I believe there are 2 ways, correct me if I'm wrong: installing a fresh tfs2010 and importing the DB from TFS 2008 or in-place upgrade. What is your recommendation and why? Are there any issue I ...

A rails migration that specifies the distance between two months..?

I would like to make two drop downs. a start time, and an end time. Specifically, I only need months. I would like to, for example, choose January, and then March, and then have the database read that it is the these two months plus February. Is there any out of the box migration that could work? I'm guessing.. script/generate migrat...

How to correctly migrate urls from custom asp.net solution to Wordpress?

I have a web site built using asp.net with ugly URLs like /DisplayContent.aspx?id=789564. I know how to migrate the database, but the Wordpress urls will be (naturally) different. Can I simply write some mapping or do I have to include a rewrite rule for each subpage (300 pages) in .htaccess? Should I provide a rewrite rule for each e...

Script or utility to export from ScrewTurn Wiki into Confluence?

Has anyone tried migrating from ScrewTurn to Confluence? I'm hoping that I can export the ScrewTurn database to xml and then use a utility to put it in a format that Confluence can understand - perhaps the format used by the Universal Wiki Converter. Has anyone used such a utility? Is there anything I should know before I try to write o...

Things to keep in mind during Application Migration: ColdFusion to Spring

This question is regarding migration project. Currently the legacy Application is in ColdFusion and we want to migrate it to Spring Framework. So my main questions are: What are the things to keep in mind while considering Migration Project ? Are there any specifics things that I need to keep in mind while considering migration from ...

Why is Rails is trying to rerun migrations on production?

On my server when deploying the app for the first time, I ran rake db:setup which loads my entire migration history from schema.rb. Now I have more stuff I want to add, but when I run rake db:migrate on my server I realize it's trying to run my very first migration, which is failing since the table obviously exists. Examining the schema...

Is there a user provisioning API, and/or account migration/transition tool for Gmail on Google Apps?

I've decided to move all the mail accounts in my domain to Google Apps: Is there a subtle migration tool that can make the transition painless, since I want all the mail history and folders to be intact. I'm also looking to duplicate the user provisioning API with Google Apps Users alternative. Are my goals realistic? Are there any tool...

the MVCC effect on migration from oracle to db2

I have a simple (actually simplified :) ) scenario that is possibly the cause for the headache I've been having for the last few days... My current application (that serves 100's of users) currently uses Oracle as the database. I have no stored procs (I wish actually). Now, I've been asked if the product will work if I migrate to IBM ...

Loading data in rails migration?

Hi everyone, I have a large database I need to populate with data before initially running the application. Is it best to do this in an external rake task or inside migrations? Sincerely, Tyler ...

South migration error: NoMigrations exception for django.contrib.auth

I have been using South on my project for a while, but I recently did a huge amount of development and changed development machine and I think something messed up in the process. The project works fine, but I can't apply migrations. Whenever I try to apply a migration I get the following traceback: danpalmer:pest Dan$ python manage.py m...

Using active record migrations on a .NET project

I want to use the rails like database migrations on a .net project which uses an oracle database. Looking around at some of the frameworks like migratior.net (which apparently isn't well tested with oracle) I've decided to just try and use the rails active record as it looks like it's probably the most supported framework around. My qu...

Drupal Migration Problem

After migrating my Drupal (6.16) installation from shared hosting to Linode VPS (Ubunto 10.04 32 bit). Whenever I click a URL it shows only the homepage. I put ?q=user at the end of the URL to login as an admin. When I logged in it is the same. I couldn't navigate to any URL. It shows only homepage. I forgot to clean Drupal cache before ...

Will existing DAO code work against a SQL Server?

If I transfer data from a Access MDB into a SQL Server, will DAO code in a VB app work against the SQL Server. I realise there will need to be changes to the initial connection calls but will anything else need to change? ...

Rails migrate date to string?

Hi Everyone, I have a field in my db table which is a date rather than string, how do I make a migration to convert it to a string? class CreateKases < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :kases do |t| t.date :dateclosed Is it even possible? Thanks, Danny ...

VS 2010 migration issue – XSD.EXE can’t process Framework 4.0 assemblies

In VS 2008 / SDK 6.0 I used the /t option of the XSD utility to automatically generate XSD files from existing assemblies / classes. With VS 2010 and SDK 7.0 this isn’t working any longer, because the XSD.EXE can’t process the new Framework 4.0 assemblies. It stated to be a Framework 2.0 tool and can’t process assemblies of newer runtime...

SQL Express 2005 to SQL 2008 Workgroup for Sharepoint WSS 3.0

I am trying to migrate sharepoint wss 3.0 databases from SQL Express 2005 to SQL 2008 Workgroup edition. I have backed up the database, but not sure how to best attached/restore them to the new version and get up and running again. Thanks ...

How to convert a table column to another data type

I have a column with the type of Varchar in my Postgres database which I meant to be integers... and now I want to change them, unfortunately this doesn't seem to work using my rails migration. change_column :table1, :columnB, :integer Which seems to output this SQL: ALTER TABLE table1 ALTER COLUMN columnB TYPE integer So I tried d...

Migrating from Struts2 to Spring MVC

Scenario: A fairly mature project uses Struts2 and Spring and Hibernate. I say mature because it has been going on a for a while and there are many struts actions written already. Suppose we wanted to remove Struts2 from the project and instead depend entirely on Spring MVC without rewriting the entire project. Is this something that s...

Rails3 own scaffold generator

./script/rails g generator admin class AdminGenerator < Rails::Generators::NamedBase def self.source_root @source_root ||= File.expand_path('../templates', __FILE__) end def manifest #I know I can copy my template files with the 'template' method #How I can generate a migration, and a model here ? end end ...

Is Enterprise Library 5.0 backwards compatible with Enterprise Library 4.1?

Is Enterprise Library 5.0 backwards compatible with Enterprise Library 4.1? Can I just change the reference and have it work? ...