In various scenarios enterprise users might require the need to restructure tables and data while they are migrated, which is much more than just plain schema and data movement. Typical scenarios include: moving data from master database to reporting database applying transformation of schema and data for faster querying, migration from one version of the application to a newer version, migrating from one vendor based solution to another vendor solution etc., In all such scenarios you require the restructuring of both schema and data during migration.
SwisSQL Data Migration tool offers various options to achieve such transformations. Some of the features include: picking columns to be migrated, table and column name changes, datatype changes, column mapping in destination database, applying functions on data while migration etc., which makes SwisSQL suitable for this type of migrations.
Key Challenges:
Options to transform schema as well as pick and choose schema attributes during migration
Options to transform data during migration
Options to map source database schema to destination database schema appropriately
