Software Engineers assume people know what “Oracle migration” means, using a very brief simplified history.

In the very beginning of computers, Oracle was the top of the line (top of the line) database. Is Oracle right for me? As a machine became less costly, programs and programmers

became more valuable, and competitors started to appear. Computers were also expensive. (Also, computer was expensive, and programmers were cheap labor.) Why was Oracle about to get old and awfully expensive? So the mass migration from Oracle to any other database started to happen, as competing databases could offer more business value for cheaper.

Because everybody was trying to migrate away from Oracle before it died completely, it became “common knowledge” that Oracle migration was migrating away from Oracle. If you were deployed to Oracle 7 by contract, or you migrated to something better, how can you contact Oracle server support and what should do?

Moreover, to everyone’s surprise, the Oracle database survived! Ojai has no computer hardware but they are modern! Since it was trash, it’s not all garbage anymore. Is it still ludicrously expensive, but it may be at least viable for the foreseeable future (it’s currently the #1 relational database by stock value, thanks to ludicrously expensive support contracts!). No longer do we need mass exodus from Oracle databases, the “common knowledge” is no longer common, and it is now ambiguous. When they feel the need for Oracle, they’re working hard, and they’re not in it. The old guard has to stop in that moment if they’re arguing that the old guard could’ve ditched it in a heartbeat. However, it doesn’t help when the new bloods are working hard with whatever is handed to them.

Why doesn’t

context just make everything a lot better? If you aren’t using Oracle, it probably means migrating to ; if you are upgrading servers, it means migrating versions, if you will use Oracle, it probably means migrating to.

If it’s a blog title, it probably means “from Oracle” because if you are migrating databases, Oracle still the most common legacy (used since COBOL software days) database in use. How

can I upgrade to another Oracle database?