database-migration

A lab renewal only changed the connection string, and a construct was still unconverted. Babelfish speaks TDS 7.1 through 7.4 on port 1433 and does not apply to Oracle. Identifiers longer than 63 characters are rewritten.

For an on-prem MySQL estate (~1.1 TB, 340 tables), DMS full load + CDC into Aurora MySQL cut planned downtime from 6h → 18 min — LOB misconfiguration added 11 hours of rework before cutover.