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Dear Kettle User,
Lately, more and more people ask about using Kettle to do data migration from one database to another. Usually this involves copying data from a propriatery (expensive) database to an open source database.

Data migration projects are arguably one of the most difficult there are because while in theory all relational database use SQL, in practice, database vendors do as much as possible to provide their users with propriatery extensions. Obviously they do this to create a vendor lock-in and to have that customer stay with the company for a long time thereafter.

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