How to Plot Your
Escape from Oracle
Joey Jablonski
Oracle’s change in pricing has caused many to consider
migrating their database to a new provider.
Recent news around the doubling of cost to run Oracle databases in the cloud
has many enterprises searching for alternatives. The underlying database for
many applications is a critical component that has had years of performance
tuning, modeling and other optimizations to ensure rapid application response
time. With this long-term investment, many organizations are hesitant to
change the underlying database for in-house built and 3rd party applications.
While there is never zero risk involved in IT changes, database migrations can
be done safely and successfully while ensuring data integrity, application avail-
ability and performance are maintained at peak levels for user satisfaction.
When embarking on a database migration to eliminate Oracle, pre-planning is
critical to ensure organizational alignment on goals, technology choices and
migration methods. Achieving this alignment early in the process will ensure
uniformity in migrations and proper planning and testing for low-risk migra-
tions. Figure 1 shows the high-level steps necessary to organize, decide, plan
and execute a database migration with the intention of changing database
platforms while migrating applications to a public cloud platform.
Figure 1: Database Migration Process
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