Migrating content from legacy blogging platform to wordpress

Question

i am working on a massive site for a client, but their current website (thousands of pages deep) is built on a legacy blogging platform that was built specifically for them in aspx. My job is to take all of the SQL tables filled with data(comments, categories, posts, titles, dates, etc) and convert them to a wordpress ready format. I want to be able to reformat the tables that I have into a format that wordpress can understand and process.

The tables are not even close to a match of the given wordpress format. I am looking at a major data migration and am looking for tools, resources, or people that may be of help. I am a web designer with little experience with mySQL or databases. Can anyone point me in a good direction here?

Answer 1

Not sure what wordpress reads, but looking to using the mysqldump function. this will save the SQL file and export it. Then just running simply change table commands, you can get it ready.

Answer 2

I'd be very surprised if there is some sort of tool that will help you migrate. This will most likely boil down to good old fashioned SQL.

It sounds like you are trying to do a basic Extract/Transform/Load operation (ETL). I'd start by reading up on that. How many tables are you dealing with here?

I would also recommend printing out the Entity relationship model (database diagram) for both the new and old database structures and make sure you understand what data is going to go where.