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Tools To Optimize Data Replication From Oracle To Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehouse that offers advantages over traditional on-premise solutions like Oracle, such as eliminating hardware maintenance and allowing easy scaling. There are tools that can replicate data from Oracle to Snowflake, with the best options being fully automated, able to handle large volumes of data quickly, continually reconcile data between the sources, use changed data capture to only replicate changed data, and maintain referential integrity during the replication process. Selecting a tool with these key capabilities can make replicating data from Oracle to Snowflake effortless.

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Tools To Optimize Data Replication From Oracle To Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehouse that offers advantages over traditional on-premise solutions like Oracle, such as eliminating hardware maintenance and allowing easy scaling. There are tools that can replicate data from Oracle to Snowflake, with the best options being fully automated, able to handle large volumes of data quickly, continually reconcile data between the sources, use changed data capture to only replicate changed data, and maintain referential integrity during the replication process. Selecting a tool with these key capabilities can make replicating data from Oracle to Snowflake effortless.

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Tools 

to Optimize Data Replication from Oracle 
to Snowflake

Oracle has been a trusted database for organizations for a long time now
and is widely used to execute critical and large workloads. Then why are
businesses today replicating Oracle data to Snowflake?

To understand this better, it is essential to know more about Snowflake.

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing solution and is available as a


SaaS product. Since it operates on the cloud only, there is no dependency
on “big data” software or any existing database. Instead, it uses a new SQL
database engine with specific functions and capabilities. Users do not have
to install and configure any hardware or software since management,
tuning, and maintenance issues are fully taken care of. Snowflake,
therefore, eliminates hitches present in traditional data warehouse
solutions.
Snowflake has several benefits that make enterprises want to replicate
data Oracle to Snowflake. One is that users can work easily with both
structured and unstructured data in Snowflake, something that is very
difficult in Oracle. Further, users can scale their workloads up or down,
paying only for the resources used. Finally, and this is critical, multiple
users can run multiple workloads and intricate queries on Snowflake
without any performance drop or lag.

There are many tools that organizations may use to replicate data Oracle to
Snowflake. But to get the best results and make the process effortless, a tool
with exclusive features should be selected. Here are some of the
functionalities to look for.

· Replicate large volumes of data – The selected tool should be able to


replicate terabytes of data quickly and effectively.

· Fully automated – A completely automated tool will not require


pipelines and connectors to be set up for replication of data. The whole
cycle of data transformation, data mergers, and data reconciliation will be
completed through a point and click interface.

· Data reconciliation – The most advanced tool will continually reconcile


data between the source Oracle database and the Snowflake database in the
cloud. Detailed checking of column checksum and row count in Oracle and
Snowflake will be carried out.

· Use Changed Data Capture – In the event of some change or


modifications of data at the source, the usual replication tools refresh the
full data to destination data. This is a time-consuming and tedious process
that has to be repeated frequently. Optimized tools to replicate data Oracle
to Snowflake, on the other hand, use Changed Data Capture (CDC) to copy
only the incremental changes into the Snowflake database.

· Maintain data referential integrity – After the replication process is


completed, it is important to know the date, time, and values that changed
at the columnar level. This is known as referential integrity and the top
tools will have this capability.
These are some of the aspects that organizations should keep in mind when
searching for an optimized tool to replicate data Oracle to Snowflake.

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