Hello Sri, Poornima,
I was curious to see why we cannot import the data from caTissue Plus database to the new one Open Specimen database, the answer is clear, the 2 databases are different. Although there are some tables that are common to both, there are tables that are in the caTissue Plus that are not in the Open specimen, and vice versa. Moreover there are some tables named: de_e_1227->de_e_1847 in caTissue Plus, not sure if these corresponds to some of the tables in Open Specimen. So although they are similar but they are not identical databses. I thought of a way to merge them, take the union of both databases, but decided against it.
Findings:
20 tables in caTissue Plus, which are not in Open Specimen
67 tables are in Open Specimen but are not in caTissue Plus
128 tables in caTissue Plus, named: de_e_1227->de_e_1847 which are not in Open Specimen. My hunch is that some, of those may correspond to some of the tables that are in Open Specimen but not in caTissue Plus.
Nadia