Oracle Conversion Settings

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General Conversion Settings

General Conversion Settings page

1. Transform Synonyms: Flag to indicate whether or not Synonyms should be transformed. By default, it's set to true.

2. Transform Packages to new Schemas: Flag to indicate whether or not the Packages should be transformed to new Schemas.

   Please check the naming of the procedure enabling and disabling the flag:

   // Oracle Input
   
   CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE emp_mgmt AS
   PROCEDURE remove_emp (employee_id NUMBER );
   END emp_mgmt;
   
   CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY emp_mgmt AS 
   PROCEDURE remove_emp (employee_id NUMBER) IS 
      BEGIN 
         DELETE FROM employees 
         WHERE employees.employee_id = remove_emp.employee_id; 
         tot_emps := tot_emps - 1; 
      END; 
   END emp_mgmt; 
   
   // Transformation by default
   
   CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS emp_mgmt;
   ...
   CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE emp_mgmt.remove_emp (employee_id FLOAT)
   ...
   
   // Transformation with disablePackagesAsSchemas flag
   
   CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE EMP_MGMT_REMOVE_EMP (employee_id FLOAT)
   ...

3. Transform Date as Timestamp:

   Flag to indicate whether SYSDATE should be transformed into CURRENT_DATE or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. This will also affect all DATE columns that will be transformed to TIMESTAMP.

   // Oracle Input
   CREATE TABLE DATE_TABLE(
       DATE_COL DATE
   );
   
   SELECT SYSDATE FROM DUAL;
   
   // Transformation by default
   CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE PUBLIC.DATE_TABLE (
   	DATE_COL TIMESTAMP /*** MSC-WARNING - MSCEWI3060 - DEFAULT VALUE FOR SYSDATE IS CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. COLUMN WAS TRANSFORMED TO TIMESTAMP TO PRESERVE INFORMATION. ***/
   );
   
   SELECT
   	CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
   FROM DUAL;
   
   // Transformation with --disableDateAsTimestamp flag
   CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE PUBLIC.DATE_TABLE (
   	DATE_COL DATE
   );
   
   SELECT
   	CURRENT_DATE
   FROM DUAL;

4. Transform OUTER JOINS to ANSI Syntax: Flag to indicate whether Outer Joins should be transformed to only ANSI syntax.

5. Comment objects with missing dependencies: Flag to indicate if the user wants to comment on nodes that have missing dependencies.

6. Disable EWI comments generation (errors, warnings and issues): Flag to indicate whether EWIs comments (Errors, Warnings, and Issues) will not be generated on the converted code. The default is false.

7. Set encoding of the input files: The encoding code page number is used for parsing the source files. We only accept encodings supported by .NET Core. Here are the ones supported at the moment:

Code Page	Name	Display Name
1200	utf-16	Unicode
1201D	unicodeFFFE	Unicode (Big endian)
12000	utf-32	Unicode (UTF-32)
12001	utf-32BE	Unicode (UTF-32 Big endian)
20127	us-ascii	US-ASCII
28591	iso-8859-1	Western European (ISO)
65000	utf-7	Unicode (UTF-7). Not available in .NET 5
65001	utf-8	Unicode (UTF-8). Default encoding

To review the Settings that apply to all supported languages, go to the following article.

DB Objects Names Settings

DB Objects Names Settings page

1. Schema: The string value specifies the custom schema name to apply. If not specified, the original database name will be used. Example: DB1.myCustomSchema.Table1.

2. Database: The string value specifies the custom database name to apply. Example: MyCustomDB.PUBLIC.Table1.

3. Default: None of the above settings will be used in the object names.

Prepare Code Settings

Prepare Code Settings page

1. Prepare my code: Flag to indicate whether the input code should be processed before parsing and transformation.

Conversion Rate Settings

Conversion Rate Settings page

On this page, you can choose whether the successfully converted code percentage is calculated using lines of code or using the total number of characters. The character conversion rate is the default option. You can read the entire rate documentation on the documentation page.

Stored Procedures Target Languages Settings

Stored Procedures Target Languages Settings page

On this page, you can choose whether stored procedures are migrated to JavaScript embedded in Snow SQL, or to Snowflake Scripting. The default option is Snowflake Scripting.

Reset Settings: The reset settings option appears on every page. If you've made changes, you can reset SnowConvert to its original default settings.