Features:

• All Oracle data types (except BFILE and MLSLABEL) and attributes are supported
• Works with all versions of Unix and Windows MySQL servers
• Command line support
• Converts indexes with all necessary attributes
• Merges Oracle data into an existing MySQL database
• Converts individual tables
• VServer user's option (see below)
• Exports Oracle databases into a dump file (see below)
• Easy-to-use wizard-style interface
• Full install/uninstall support
  

Limitations

• Does not convert foreign keys
• Does not convert stored procedures
• Does not convert columns having user-defined types
• Does not allow to connect to Oracle database as SYSDBA or SYSOPER
  

Requirements

• Windows 2000/XP or Windows NT 4 with Internet Explorer 5 or later or Windows 98/ME or Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 5 or later
• At least 32 MB of available memory
• Oracle client and networking components should be installed on the same machine where you run Oracle-to-MySQL from
  
  

If you are using Virtual Server hosting you probably have no sufficient privileges to create new databases on the target MySQL server. For this case we recommend the following approach:

1. ask your Virtual Server administrator to create blank database for you
2. run Oracle-to-MySQL and select this database as the conversion target
3. click "Yes" when you will be asked if you'd like to overwrite existing MySQL database

MySQL dump file

Oracle-to-MySQL allows users to perform deferred conversion and get more control over the process. Following this way, the program stores the contents of the source database into a local dump file instead of moving it to MySQL server directly. The resulting file contains MySQL statements to create all tables and to fill them with the data. You will be able to import this file into existing MySQL database via MySQL client as follows:

mysql.exe --host=... --user=... --password=... -vvf {MySQL database name} < {dump file name}