Preface

This guide describes the installation, configuration, and administration tasks for all activities related to migrating applications developed for non-Oracle databases, such as DB2, MySQL, Sybase, and legacy applications, to Oracle Database. This guide also provides migration scenarios that users may implement in sequence.

Audience

This guide is for database administrators and application developers who are interested in migrating from databases other than Oracle to an Oracle Database.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Database documentation set:

• Oracle Database SQL Language Reference

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Development Guide

• Oracle Database Reference

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.