This is a pretty standard task for something like Lotus Enterprise
Integrator. While that package has it's limitations and I curse it
occasionally, it does ok. Either that or just code something up to do the
replication. You could even use a common scripting language <cough perl
cough> and do it simply.
Josh
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Richard Huxton wrote:
> From: "Nate Carlson" <natecars@real-time.com>
>
> > We have a need to replicate a Microsoft SQL server out to a PostgreSQL
> > server. Pretty much, the client uses SQL server right now, and we don't
> > want to expose that to the internet in any way, so we want to set up a
> > Postgres box with the same data at the colo facility. Also helps to have a
> > box you can really admin remotely. :)
> >
> > The data will never be updated on the Postgres box, so it will be a
> > one-way replication.
>
> Not heard of anyone doing this - be interested in hearing how you make out.
>
> MS-SQL <=> MS-SQL replication is probably going to be tricky to hack for
> this situation, but you might be able to do something with Access
> replicating from the MS-SQL server. Link to the Postgres server via ODBC.
> Can't say I've tried it, but that would be my first attempt.
>
> - Richard Huxton
>
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