Relocating, moving or copying ClearQuest schema and user databases using database vendor facilities

This blog describes the process for moving or copying ClearQuest schema and user databases between two separate database instances using the database vendor’s native facilities. This approach has a few of advantages over the standard Move /Copy Database facilities provided by ClearQuest (either those used via the Maintenance Tool or Designer, or via command [...]

All you ever wanted to know about ClearQuest IDs…

I’ve done some pretty masochistic ClearQuest database migrations in my time. By masochistic I mean that instead of using the Rational recommended approach for a database migration (I don’t even know what that is. Fiddling around with the import/export tool? No thanks!), I’ll write routines in Transact/SQL or PL/SQL (SQL Server and Oracle’s procedural [...]