Before you can start using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration service and before migrating your databases, you must perform the following preparatory tasks:

1. Create Database Migration policies in your tenancy.
2. Create any dependent objects needed for the migration.
3. Configure the source and target databases as required.

• Configuring SUDO access
  You may need to grant certain users authority to perform operations using sudo on the source database servers.
• Access OCI Database Migration Service
  You can access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration Service using the Oracle Cloud Interface Console (a browser based interface), REST APIs, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Software Development Kits and Command Line Interface.
• Basic taskflows
  The following taskflows guide you on how to get set up with OCI Database Migration Service quickly and easily. Depending on your use case, you may diverge from the path outlined below, in which case you can choose to follow one of the various quickstarts available.
• Quickstarts
  The following Quickstarts are common use cases that were mapped out into step by step instructions. Depending on your use case, you can choose to follow one of the various quickstarts available.