Getting Started
Prerequisites
- Source and target credentials, or file/storage access details
- Network access from DBConvert Streams to your source and target systems
Install
Desktop
- Download your platform package from Install.
- Launch the app.
Docker / self-hosted
- Prepare a Linux host with Docker and Docker Compose.
- Follow the Docker deployment guide.
- Open the deployed UI and sign in.
Add and validate connections
Confirm the platform can reach your data before creating a stream.
- Add a source connection. See Connection Management for setup details.
- Add a target connection.
- Open the source in Data Explorer.
- Browse schemas, tables, or files to confirm visibility.
- Optionally, run a query in the SQL Console for deeper validation.
Connection passes when:
- connection test succeeds
- explorer lists the expected objects
- a query returns expected rows
Run your first stream
- Open stream creation and select source and target connections.
- Pick a mode:
- Load for one-time migration
- CDC for continuous change replication
- Choose tables, schemas, files, or a custom query scope.
- Start the stream.
- Monitor progress in Observability.
- Verify target data matches the source.
Stream passes when:
- stream starts without errors
- progress metrics increase
- target data matches expected scope