SA17 EOL - Migrate to a different database provider - how?

[hansg]

Since SQL Anywhere is EOL at the end of 2025, we got an official email about that, we are looking how to continue our software in 2026 and further. The biggest issue in our situation is that we use a lot of Stored Procedures.

Some questions:

Does anybody already migrate SQL Anywhere with Stored Procedures to another database provider?

Do you know good migration tools? I did have a look at www.isperer.com, that looks ok. Anybody experiences whith that company?

What database provider(s) do you advice? PostgreSQL?

Tia Hans

[former_SQLA_member326303]

2025 or December 31, 2027? See the official SQL Anywhere information here

[VolkerBarth]

Just to add to the link posted by Illia:

AFAIK, the EOL date for v17 has been increased several times, possibly because no new majer version has been published...

In former times, a major version was usually supported until the second next version was released. That general rule won't work anymore, methinks.

@Mike Paola might tell more...

[VolkerBarth]

FWIW, I just read a "definition of an SAP EOMM" meaning by a former Sybase/SQL Anywhere team member, namely Robert Waywell. The question itself is focussed on SAP IQ but SAP IQ relies on SQL Anywhere itself, too. Robert declares that an EOMM is quite different from an EOL:

SAP IQ roadmap

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As the question titel is plainly wrong, note, currently the EOMM for SQL Anywhere 17 is 2028-12-31, and that is NOT an EOL date.