Thanks - I've been dying trying to find the software (on the windows side) for 
part 3 ..

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3663/sql-server-and-postgresql-foreign-data-wrapper-configuration--part-3/

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 1:49 PM
To: Mammarelli, Joanne T; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Best tool to pull from mssql

On 11/10/2015 10:26 AM, Mammarelli, Joanne T wrote:
> Continuously syncing ..  we have database in mssql.  Ideally we'd like to 
> connect to the mssql databases and pull out the fields/content we required 
> and populate that in a postgres database.

When all else fails you can go the ODBC route. I have done that through Access 
to create a linked Postgres table that I can populate from other data sources.

Here are some articles that seem to be doing something similar using SQL Server 
and Postgres. In the article Postgres is installed on a Linux box, but that 
does matter for the ODBC usage. :

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3661/creating-twoway-data-access-between-sql-server-and-postgresql--part-1/

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3662/sql-server-and-postgresql-linked-server-configuration--part-2/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 1:26 PM
> To: Mammarelli, Joanne T; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Best tool to pull from mssql
>
> On 11/10/2015 10:21 AM, Mammarelli, Joanne T wrote:
>> Hi .. we're on a hunt to locate either pgloader or the tds_fdw 
>> extension to assist us with pulling data FROM a Microsoft sql server 
>> (we're a windows-based postgres installation).
>
> So are we taking about a one time operation or continuously syncing or 
> something in between?
>
>>
>> Is this the proper way to handle the process?
>>
>
> Depends on the answer to the above.
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> [email protected]
>


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