Practical Data Migration

CREATE YOUR OWN DATA MIGRATION STRATEGY

Well done — you—ve made a good first step by buying this book! Show it to your peers and bosses and get them to buy copies too. It may, on its own, convince them of the scale of the task you have been given. But enough of the sales pitch. If you do everything in this book, and follow not just the letter but also the spirit of the Golden Rules, you will have a successful data migration and no worries. However (and, yes, there has to be a caveat) I do not know anything about the environment in which you find yourself. It could be that some of the items outlined here have already been delivered elsewhere in your programme. For instance, historical data retention of data in Legacy Data Stores may have been ...