diff --git a/UPDATING.md b/UPDATING.md
index e1b14db28f184..2915976bcd66a 100644
--- a/UPDATING.md
+++ b/UPDATING.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ assists people when migrating to a new version.
 
 - [19046](https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/19046): Enables the drag and drop interface in Explore control panel by default. Flips `ENABLE_EXPLORE_DRAG_AND_DROP` and `ENABLE_DND_WITH_CLICK_UX` feature flags to `True`.
 - [18936](https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/18936): Removes legacy SIP-15 interm logic/flags—specifically the `SIP_15_ENABLED`, `SIP_15_GRACE_PERIOD_END`, `SIP_15_DEFAULT_TIME_RANGE_ENDPOINTS`, and `SIP_15_TOAST_MESSAGE` flags. Time range endpoints are no longer configurable and strictly adhere to the `[start, end)` paradigm, i.e., inclusive of the start and exclusive of the end. Additionally this change removes the now obsolete `time_range_endpoints` from the form-data and resulting in the cache being busted.
+- [19570](https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/19570): makes [sqloxide](https://pypi.org/project/sqloxide/) optional so the SIP-68 migration can be run on aarch64. If the migration is taking too long installing sqloxide manually should improve the performance.
 
 ### Breaking Changes
 
diff --git a/requirements/testing.in b/requirements/testing.in
index c33f245280bb0..082dbc934ac5c 100644
--- a/requirements/testing.in
+++ b/requirements/testing.in
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ pytest
 pytest-cov
 statsd
 pytest-mock
+sqloxide
 # DB dependencies
 -e file:.[bigquery]
 -e file:.[trino]
diff --git a/requirements/testing.txt b/requirements/testing.txt
index 3b1ce021873f5..dbdb9e5077e87 100644
--- a/requirements/testing.txt
+++ b/requirements/testing.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SHA1:7a8e256097b4758bdeda2529d3d4d31e421e1a3c
+# SHA1:e273e8da6bfd5f6f8563fe067e243297cc7c588c
 #
 # This file is autogenerated by pip-compile-multi
 # To update, run:
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ google-auth-oauthlib==0.4.6
 google-cloud-bigquery[bqstorage,pandas]==2.29.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/testing.in
-    #   apache-superset
     #   pandas-gbq
     #   pybigquery
 google-cloud-bigquery-storage==2.9.1
@@ -105,9 +104,7 @@ openapi-schema-validator==0.1.5
 openapi-spec-validator==0.3.1
     # via -r requirements/testing.in
 pandas-gbq==0.15.0
-    # via
-    #   -r requirements/testing.in
-    #   apache-superset
+    # via -r requirements/testing.in
 parameterized==0.8.1
     # via -r requirements/testing.in
 parso==0.8.2
@@ -136,9 +133,7 @@ pyasn1==0.4.8
 pyasn1-modules==0.2.8
     # via google-auth
 pybigquery==0.10.2
-    # via
-    #   -r requirements/testing.in
-    #   apache-superset
+    # via -r requirements/testing.in
 pydata-google-auth==1.2.0
     # via pandas-gbq
 pyfakefs==4.5.0
@@ -166,6 +161,8 @@ rsa==4.7.2
     # via google-auth
 sqlalchemy-trino==0.4.1
     # via apache-superset
+sqloxide==0.1.15
+    # via -r requirements/testing.in
 statsd==3.3.0
     # via -r requirements/testing.in
 traitlets==5.0.5
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c7cdd2acd2185..766e738b3b92d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ def get_git_sha() -> str:
         "slackclient==2.5.0",  # PINNED! slack changes file upload api in the future versions
         "sqlalchemy>=1.3.16, <1.4, !=1.3.21",
         "sqlalchemy-utils>=0.37.8, <0.38",
-        "sqloxide==0.1.15",
         "sqlparse==0.3.0",  # PINNED! see https://github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse/issues/562
         "tabulate==0.8.9",
         # needed to support Literal (3.8) and TypeGuard (3.10)
diff --git a/superset/migrations/shared/utils.py b/superset/migrations/shared/utils.py
index bff25e05d137f..c54de83c42af0 100644
--- a/superset/migrations/shared/utils.py
+++ b/superset/migrations/shared/utils.py
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@
 from sqlalchemy import engine_from_config
 from sqlalchemy.engine import reflection
 from sqlalchemy.exc import NoSuchTableError
-from sqloxide import parse_sql
+
+try:
+    from sqloxide import parse_sql
+except ImportError:
+    parse_sql = None
 
 from superset.sql_parse import ParsedQuery, Table
 
@@ -88,6 +92,10 @@ def extract_table_references(sql_text: str, sqla_dialect: str) -> Set[Table]:
     """
     Return all the dependencies from a SQL sql_text.
     """
+    if not parse_sql:
+        parsed = ParsedQuery(sql_text)
+        return parsed.tables
+
     dialect = "generic"
     for dialect, sqla_dialects in sqloxide_dialects.items():
         if sqla_dialect in sqla_dialects: