Zero-Downtime Database Migration and Upgrade

Migrating from one database to another can be a fairly simple and seemingly routine process, but if the proper failsafe procedures are not put into place, problems can arise. Whether used as a mere repository for data or as storage for business logic (schema migration), certain steps must be followed to eliminate downtime and the potential for data loss.

ItExpert’s expert DBAs can perform a wide variety of complex data migration and restructuring tasks, including:

• Developing a migration strategy to ensure all steps are designed according to your organization’s specifications, including data quality, data governance, change management, and more.
• Mapping and transferring your old data to the new system using Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) best practices, including removing bad data and cleaning good data.
• Ensuring data integrity through data and application review before migration.
• Implementing a database modeling procedure to seek out, highlight, and eliminate errors or other issues before migration occurs.
• Implementing version, or source control, in your database to ensure it remains synchronized and consistent with your application source code.
• Providing ongoing testing and maintenance to ensure a successful migration.

Our expert DBAs have performed hundreds of complex database migrations, so you know you’re in good hands with ItExpert.

If your organization is in need of migration assistance and support, contact us today using the form to the right.

Our administrators perform the latest database upgrades across multiple database environments every day using various methods, testing, configuration and fallback routines. We service any version, any operating system, any complexity – and have likely seen and completed it already in more than 500 upgrades we have performed in the past three years.

ItExpert is unique in its capacity to design, document, articulate from continual upgrade scenarios and shared intellect to quickly get your solution in place.

Going the Extra Mile
Since we are an integral component of many of our customers’ production and development environments, ItExpert’s company culture goes beyond the database upgrade itself. Our expert DBAs frequently assist further in implementing new features and performance improvements, ultimately improving database availability, reliability and recoverability.

Database Lifecycle Management is a set of processes that allows an organization to develop, improve, and adapt to the changes that occur throughout the life of the database. This in turn allows for improved efficiency, resource management, visibility, scalability, and collaboration between teams with the goal of reducing costs, improving quality, and bringing continuous delivery to the entire lifecycle of the database.
ItExpert’s database administration experts can effectively implement a Database Lifecycle Management strategy in your organization that includes the following:

• Identifying the unique needs of your enterprise to define necessary technical parameters, information architecture, and timeline.
• Conceptual, logical, and physical database design and development, including Entity-Relationship (ER) modeling, relation schemas, and more.
• Stress-testing databases to identify failures and potential failures before the system is put online.
• Auditing for compliance with data storage rules and regulations.
• Automating procedures to ensure continuous delivery and thus reduce risk and improve efficiency.
• Ongoing monitoring, beginning at the delivery stage and continuing through to the retirement stage.
• Database tuning and maintenance.
• Recommending solutions that can be cost-weighted and threat-rated to generate a prioritized list of suggested improvements.
• Monitoring databases to provide warning of impending bottlenecks and slowdowns so that new cost-effective solutions can be implemented.

If your organization is in need of a comprehensive Database Lifecycle Management strategy, contact ItExpert’s database administration experts today by filling out the form on the right.