Migrate Clipper to Percona

Shiji Pan

1 year ago

Want to migrate from Clipper to Percona?

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Migrate from Clipper to Percona

Choose source Clipper database and logon.

Choose target Percona database and logon.

Click “Wizard – Import All Tables” at task dialog.

then show the wizard.

Create Percona tables. Copy Clipper data to Percona. Create Percona indexes.

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Both Clipper and Percona are database servers, so the differences below are dialect-level: the same concept is spelled differently on each side.

Property	in Clipper	in Percona
port	`(file-based)`	`3306`
identifiers	`—`	`backtick`
row limit	`(driver dependent)`	`LIMIT n`
dates	`Date (D)`	`DATETIME, TIMESTAMP, DATE, TIME`
long text	`Memo (M)`	`TINYTEXT / TEXT / MEDIUMTEXT / LONGTEXT`
binary	`—`	`BLOB / TINYBLOB / LONGBLOB`

Side	Command
Percona	`mysqldump`
Percona (load)	`mysqlimport, or LOAD DATA INFILE`

Percona has no equivalent for Date and time - it has to be flattened or dropped.
Percona has no equivalent for Binary - it has to be flattened or dropped.
Percona has no equivalent for JSON - it has to be flattened or dropped.

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