[support] Integrating a large, given Database into Drupal

[Ms. Nancy Wichmann]

Herr Zapf:

You might want to just use the existing multiple database solutions to start with - perhaps, with "freshness" in mind, working off a slave database. After you have this working, you might look at some kind of actual migration (it would be a bit faster), perhaps utilizing feeds, which can be done with no loss of data.

Dealing with the politics is always an important part of the solution.

 
Nancy 
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.



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> From: Bastiaan Zapf
>
>I still hope we can do it without migrating the whole database
>... there are quite a few databases of this kind and that a
>"drupal accesses an external storage of documents" scenario would at
>least give some control over unification of these documents.
>
>> While 300,000 nodes is a good size, drupal.org has several times that many
>> nodes.
>
>I do not doubt that drupal respectively the underlying database could
>handle those numbers, it's more like: once we migrate everything, we're
>going to have to live with that migration like forever. I do not want
>that. I couldn't even responsibly decide if a migration were "good"
>(that is, not lose any data that is thought important).
>
>As you might suspect, there's a lot of politics in this setting.
>
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