Case Study: DBA Consulting Inc. saves time and money upgrading databases with Idera DB Change Manager

DBA Consulting Saved Time and Money Upgrading Databases with DB Change Manager

DBA Consulting Inc. helped a large West Coast grocery chain facing an urgent upgrade of its heavily customized HQPM pricing application after an acquisition. The project required moving from version 3.x to 6.x and upgrading the underlying Oracle database from 8i to 10g, while preserving critical customizations and business logic. Idera’s DB Change Manager was the key product used to support the effort.

Using Idera’s DB Change Manager, DBA Consulting Inc. compared database environments, identified differences, and generated thousands of DDL scripts to automate the migration. The solution cut the database portion of the project from months to weeks, reduced the overall timeline by eight weeks, and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in man-hours. The upgraded application has since run in production for over a year with zero database fixes required after go-live.

DBA Consulting Inc.

Cristian Speranta

Senior Technical Consultant