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Command line version of MySQL to Oracle converter

To perform batch conversion or call the conversion procedure from an automation script you can use console version of MySQL to Oracle converter. This is the file S2OAGENT.EXE in the installation folder. You can either run this tool directly from command line or call it from any script as well. The program supports the following command-line options:

--blob2text		convert BLOB to text
--dest=...		Oracle service name
--help		display help message and exit
--logfile=...		path to the logfile where execution traces will be written
--mode=...		how to process tables that already exist in Oracle database (0 - overwrite, 1 - merge, 2 - skip)
--mysqlh=...		MySQL server IP address or network name
--mysqlu=...		MySQL user name
--mysqlp=...		MySQL user password
--oraclu=...		Oracle user name
--oraclp=...		Oracle user password
--port=...		MySQL port
--silent		use this option to disable program output
--skip_idx		skip converting indexes
--src=...		MySQL database name
--tab_def		convert table definitions only
--tab_file=...		name of the file containing table names to convert (one table name per line)
--uppercase		make names uppercase

In the following example the program converts MySQL database "db1" on the remote MySQL server "mysqlhost" into Oracle database "db1_from_mysql":

S2OAGENT.EXE --src=db1 --dest=db1_from_mysql --mysqlh=mysqlhost 
             --mysqlu=administrator --mysqlp=the_passsword 
             --oraclu=scott --oraclp=tiger

Table names file should be formatted as follows:

Table_1 Table_2 ... Table_N

Notes:

You can omit 'mysqlh' to connect local database server
It is necessary to specify 'port' parameter only if it differs from the default MySQL port 3306
The default mode is 'overwrite'. You can change it using '--mode' parameter
If you omit 'tab_file' parameter, all database tables will be converted
Command line parameters that contain spaces should be enclosed in quotes (for example --dest="my database")