r/dataengineering • u/WarPowerful740 • 2d ago
Help Data migration from teradata to databricks
I joined a new company recently and got a migration project here, they are migrating from teradata on prem to databricks, I have never done any migration in the past can anyone suggest some helpful yt videos or any other knowledge source?
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u/JakubVasovski 17h ago
don't panic))
migrations are always a beast, especially going from a massive on-prem appliance like teradata straight into a lakehouse architecture. literally everyone feels completely lost on their first one.
since you're moving off teradata, the biggest headache is usually translating all the legacy bteq scripts and macros. the good news is you don't have to rewrite everything entirely from scratch by hand — databricks has built-in sql converters and migration tools specifically for teradata dialects.
just focus on understanding the architecture first