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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

You're reading from  AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243108
Pages 472 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Kate Gawron Kate Gawron
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
2. Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Database Fundamentals 4. Chapter 3: Understanding AWS Infrastructure 5. Part 2: Workload-Specific Database Design
6. Chapter 4: Relational Database Service 7. Chapter 5: Amazon Aurora 8. Chapter 6: Amazon DynamoDB 9. Chapter 7: Redshift and DocumentDB 10. Chapter 8: Neptune, Quantum Ledger Database, and Timestream 11. Chapter 9: Amazon ElastiCache 12. Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security
13. Chapter 10: The AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS Database Migration Service 14. Chapter 11: Database Task Automation 15. Chapter 12: AWS Database Security 16. Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
17. Chapter 13: CloudWatch and Logging 18. Chapter 14: Backup and Restore 19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques 20. Part 5: Assessment
21. Chapter 16: Exam Practice
22. Chapter 17: Answers 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Converting a database using SCT

Once you have completed the assessments and decided on a target database, you can use SCT to assist in converting the database objects and code. SCT carries out the following tasks:

  • SCT installs an extension pack that contains common functions that can be used in converted database code. This extension pack is supplied within the SCT program.
  • SCT checks all DDL statements in the source database and attempts to recreate those in the language of the target. This includes tables, views, indexes, and more.
  • SCT attempts to convert the database's code into the target database's code.
  • For those who cannot automatically convert either using the native code of the target database or via the added extension pack functions, it provides a report that shows where the issues with the conversion are and what action you need to take to resolve them.

Figure 10.2 showed some example output of an assessment report for a SQL Server source...

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