Migrating VLDBs from Oracle to Azure Database for PostgreSQL | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026
A large European bank migrated very large Oracle workloads to Azure Database for PostgreSQL to cut costs.
“the cost becomes a moot point if performance is not met”
A Microsoft Azure principal engineering architect walks through best practices and challenges for migrating very large Oracle databases to Azure Database for PostgreSQL, covering schema compatibility, data movement, right-sizing, and tools like Ora2Pg and Striim. It is a practical database-migration talk with only passing mention of AI extensions, so it carries little direct AI industry signal.