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Practical Data Migration, 3rd Edition
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Practical Data Migration, 3rd Edition

by Johny Morris
October 2020
Beginner to intermediate
314 pages
10h 4m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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1 DATA MIGRATION: WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS?

This chapter explains what an enterprise application data migration is and looks at the key mistakes that lead to the high failure rate of data migrations across the board. It also explains the responsibility gap and why it is instrumental in most failing data migration projects.

WHAT IS DATA MIGRATION?

This book is about data migration, or more properly enterprise application migration, by which I do not mean the relocation of data centres or the regular movement of data between, say, a business system and a data warehouse. Data migration is the one-off movement of data from old systems to a new repository. It is a one-way trip with no return. More formally I define data migration as:

Data migration ...

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