PCDE Migrate data solutions Practice Question
An organization is migrating an Oracle database to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. They have numerous stored procedures written in PL/SQL. Which tool should they use to automatically convert these procedures to PL/pgSQL?
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Ora2Pg
Ora2Pg is a schema conversion tool that translates Oracle PL/SQL code to PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, handling data type mappings and object conversions.
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Ora2Pg
Why this is correct
Ora2Pg is designed for Oracle-to-PostgreSQL schema conversion, including stored procedures.
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BigQuery Data Transfer Service
Why it's wrong here
This service is for loading data into BigQuery, not for Oracle to PostgreSQL migration.
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Database Migration Service (DMS)
Why it's wrong here
DMS handles data migration but does not automatically convert stored procedures.
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gcloud sql import
Why it's wrong here
This command imports data into Cloud SQL but does not perform schema conversion.
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