PostgreSQL Migration · Durham
PostgreSQL Migration in Durham
Migrating Durham organisations onto PostgreSQL, where the schema moves easily and the procedural code does not. Years of business logic written into stored procedures and triggers in another database's dialect has to be translated or relocated — and it is usually undocumented, so establishing what it does is most of the work.
Why this comes up
The problem
The tables migrate cleanly and four hundred stored procedures contain logic nobody has read since they were written.
What you get
What we deliver
- Procedural code inventoried and assessed for what is still in use
- Logic relocated to the application where it does not belong in the database
- Remaining procedures translated with behaviour verified, not just syntax
- Case sensitivity handled, since identifier folding differs between systems
- Data types mapped deliberately where the source has no direct equivalent
- Parallel running with reconciliation before the source system is retired
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what postgresql migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- pgloader
- Python
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Financial services
- Public sector
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Retail
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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PostgreSQL Migration in Durham — common questions
- Why is stored procedure code the hard part?
- Because it is business logic in a dialect-specific language with no documentation. Translating the syntax is mechanical; establishing what a procedure is meant to do, whether anything still calls it and whether the new version behaves identically is not.
- Should logic move out of the database?
- Where it is genuinely application logic, yes — migration is a rare opportunity to relocate it. What belongs in the database is what benefits from being close to the data, and a great deal of procedural code is there for historical reasons rather than good ones.
- What surprises people about identifiers?
- Case handling. PostgreSQL folds unquoted identifiers to lower case where some systems fold to upper, so code that mixes quoted and unquoted references can produce objects that appear to exist and cannot be found — a small difference with confusing symptoms.
- How long should both systems run?
- Until reconciliation across a full business cycle is clean. That period is what proves the translated logic produces identical results under real conditions, and it gives the teams depending on the data time to raise discrepancies while the source is still available.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about PostgreSQL Migration in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise