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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Assessing a database using SCT

SCT allows you to assess various source databases to check how much effort it takes to convert to either an open source target database that AWS supports in RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, or Amazon Redshift, or to assess a migration from an on-premises Oracle database to RDS Oracle, or from an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server to RDS Microsoft SQL Server.

To run the assessment, you must download the SCT program for your operating system from AWS and install it. Then, you must provide the connection and login details for the source database. SCT will show you a list of all the schemas/users it finds and you can choose the ones to assess, which lets you filter out unused or old schemas.

Once the report is complete, it will show the following information:

  • A summary of the source database
  • The license evaluation of the source database, including an assessment of whether you can change to a standard edition license from an enterprise edition one
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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