Database migrations don’t scale well. Typically you need to perform a great deal of tests before you can pull the trigger and switch from old to new. Migrations are usually done manually, as most of...

Migrating from Oracle database to MariaDB can come with a number of benefits: lower cost of ownership, access to and use of an open source database engine, tight integration with the web, an active community...

Open source databases are quickly becoming mainstream, so migration from proprietary engines into open source engines is a kind of an industry trend now. It also means that we DBA’s often end up having multiple...

In previous blogs, we discussed the topic of How to Migrate from Oracle to MySQL / Percona Server and most recently Migrating from Oracle Database to MariaDB - What You Should Know. Over the years...

Gartner predicts that by 2022, 50% of existing commercial databases will have been converted to open source databases. Even more, 70% of new in-house applications will be developed on an open source database platform (State...

Whether migrating a database or an application from DB2 to PostgreSQL with only one type of database knowledge is not sufficient, there are few things to know about the differences between the two database systems....

Migrating from Oracle to MySQL/Percona Server is not a trivial task. Although it is getting easier, especially with the arrival of MySQL 8.0 and Percona announced Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 GA. Aside from planning...

ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduced a new feature which allows you to backup your ClusterControl server and restore it (together with metadata about your managed databases) onto another server. It backs up the ClusterControl application as well...

Watch the replay of this webinar with Severalnines Support Engineer Bart Oles, as he walks us through what you need to know in order to migrate from standalone or a master-slave MySQL/MariaDB setup to Galera...

In previous blogs (part 1 and part 2), we discussed how to migrate your RDS data into an EC2 instance. In the process, we managed to move our data out of RDS, but we are...

As we saw earlier, it might be challenging for companies to move their data out of RDS for MySQL. In the first part of this blog, we showed you how to set up your target...

As your needs change, and you start managing more database instances or larger centralized backups with ClusterControl, you might find that your controller host is over-utilized. Or you might need to migrate your infrastructure to...