Step 6: Validate the Schema Conversion

In SQL Workbench/J, choose File, then choose Connect window. Choose the RedshiftConnection you created in an earlier step. Choose OK.

Run the following script to verify the number of object types and count in SH schema in the target Amazon Redshift database. These values should match the number of objects in the source Oracle database.

SELECT 'TABLE' AS OBJECT_TYPE,
       TABLE_NAME AS OBJECT_NAME,
       TABLE_SCHEMA AS OBJECT_SCHEMA
FROM information_schema.TABLES
WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
AND   OBJECT_SCHEMA = 'sh';

The output from this query should be similar to the following.

object_type | object_name | object_schema
------------+-------------+--------------
TABLE       | channels    | sh
TABLE       | customers   | sh
TABLE       | products    | sh
TABLE       | promotions  | sh
TABLE       | sales       | sh

Verify the sort and distributions keys that are created in the Amazon Redshift cluster by using the following query.

set search_path to '$user', 'public', 'sh';

SELECT tablename,
       "column",
       TYPE,
       encoding,
       distkey,
       sortkey,
       "notnull"
FROM pg_table_def
WHERE (distkey = TRUE OR sortkey <> 0);

The results of the query reflect the distribution key (distkey) and sort key (sortkey) choices made by using Amazon SCT key management.

tablename  | column              | type                        | encoding | distkey | sortkey | notnull
-----------+---------------------+-----------------------------+----------+---------+---------+--------
channels   | channel_id          | numeric(38,18)              | none     | true    |       1 | true
customers  | cust_id             | numeric(38,18)              | none     | false   |       4 | true
customers  | cust_gender         | character(2)                | none     | false   |       1 | true
customers  | cust_year_of_birth  | smallint                    | none     | false   |       3 | true
customers  | cust_marital_status | character varying(40)       | none     | false   |       2 | false
products   | prod_id             | integer                     | none     | true    |       4 | true
products   | prod_subcategory    | character varying(100)      | none     | false   |       3 | true
products   | prod_category       | character varying(100)      | none     | false   |       2 | true
products   | prod_status         | character varying(40)       | none     | false   |       1 | true
promotions | promo_id            | integer                     | none     | true    |       1 | true
sales      | prod_id             | numeric(38,18)              | none     | false   |       4 | true
sales      | cust_id             | numeric(38,18)              | none     | false   |       3 | true
sales      | time_id             | timestamp without time zone | none     | true    |       1 | true
sales      | channel_id          | numeric(38,18)              | none     | false   |       2 | true
sales      | promo_id            | numeric(38,18)              | none     | false   |       5 | true