Martyn Hughes (10/19/2010)

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Steve, I've been a great fan of SSC for many years, I've used a number of redgate tools and Litespeed to compress some rather large DBs especially when using a SAN. I think Susan made a good contribution to the forum.

My comment is not meant to be 'snarky', I'm always troubled when I have to fight within an organization to get useful tools. Pervasive does cost several thousand but the amount of time saved using appropriate tools rather than paying FTEs to 'reinvent the wheel' is certainly a better use of company resources.

Pervasive has data connectors for just about anything, even really old 132 column report type stuff! (Only useful if you're dealing with old mainframe stuff)

I've used it to convert Progress to Oracle DW, Progress to SQL and vice-versa, Foxpro to SQL. On a smaller scale I used it to convert Quickbooks to SQL.

SSIS is certainly better than the old DTS but far behind 3rd party tools.