Migration panel: Reaping the benefits of Open Source
Date and time
- Saturday 3 February, 16:00 – 17:00 EET (UTC+3)
Abstract
Commercial vendors do their best to lock in their users to the database. SQL is a standard, but local flavours create friction. Migrating to MariaDB Server can create advantages in the easiest case – from MySQL 5.7 – and in the most difficult one – from Oracle Database. There are tools to help, processes to follow, and costs to be saved. This panel sheds light from different directions.
Migration panel questions:
- Why should you migrate
- What triggers the action
- What are the different complexities involved (MariaDB 5.7 … Oracle Database)
- How do you split the migration in phases
- What tools do you need (external like SQLines, internal ones to MariaDB)
- Is the documentation sufficient?
- What is a good role division (Cantamen lessons)
- How do you gain confidence to do it
- What are the fallback scenarios needed
- How to follow up, post mortem
- What to clean up afterward