Hello guys, recently, I have to work on a high profile project which involves migrating a live database from one server to another server as part of their data center exit program. This was one of the critical projects to pull off because we can't afford any mishap or data loss or production outage. There are a lot of things that I learned and would like to share with you guys. All these lessons not just apply to migrate databases like Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL database from one server to another but to any production process, you are migrating from another server. These are the things we learn from experience but as I have said in the past, you can only learn a few things