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Migration scenario

Chapter 3.

In order to describe how migration can be done from MySQL to DB2 UDB in 

practice, our migration scenario provides a small but real world Web application 

written in PHP based on a MySQL 4.0 database. When choosing an application 

to show the migration process, the intention was not to find an optimal written 

application with all the possible tricks a genius programmer would use to set up 

the database structure or to do the programming, but to use a real application 

sample as is. Although the application we use for demonstrating the migration is 

written in PHP, 7.2,  Application source conversion  on page 173 also provides 

samples in other popular programming languages like Perl, Java, and C/C++.

The following topics are discussed in detail:

Application description

System environment

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