Nobody ever really wants to move a database, but it is a frequent necessity. Here are the most common options and when to use each one ...

The tool, MySQL Migration Suite, allows schema objects such as tables and views to be automatically migrated from an Oracle or Microsoft Access database to MySQL.

You don't necessarily <B>have</B> to have root access to the MySQL server, but you should at least have an account with insert/update/etc. permissions on the database you're going to be importing ...

In this article, author Deepak Vohra discusses the details of migrating an on-prem database to a MySQL database on the cloud, using AWS Database Migration Service.