Staying proactive in monitoring service announcements, evaluating migration paths early and weighing trade-offs carefully can prevent last-minute crises.

For example, if the organization is relocating an entire data center, the time and management required for a file by file migration could be burdensome enough to delay the move significantly.

When it comes to difficulty, problems don’t come much harder than a conventional database migration.

Since all of the enterprise level methods used to upgrade a database from one MS SQL release to another (for example, MS SQL 2000 to MS SQL 2005) involve a migration of data from an instance running ...

The Database Migration Service is a serverless tool to migrate MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases to Cloud SQL with a few clicks.

Due to my background working with other major database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, I've long been an advocate for the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). This powerful and easy ...

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As examples, here's a Microsoft Document that explains the tri-part process of moving a SQL Server 2008 R2 database to Azure SQL Database, and this video from the Microsoft Azure group explains the ...