Database migration | How to perform a heart surgery when the patient is awake - Visma TechTalk #16

Moving from one database to another is easy - just create tables, move the data and connect.
It's easy, right? Well, it's not...

Let us show you what it actually takes to migrate a large legacy system that was optimized to work on Oracle for over 20 years.
In this talk, we will be sharing our experiences and learning opportunities with you. We will give a high level overview of the why, what’s and how, and give some examples of things that worked good and not so good

Was it easy? - No...
Was it doable? - Absolutely!

What you will find in this talk:

- Reasons to switch database
- Example of Proceedo migration project and results
- Lessons learned and how such projects could be done better

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