On August 30, Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) to support online migrations of various databases to Azure. What’s an “online migration”? Online ...

As SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reach the end of support in 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to upgrade to a cloud database service. Follow this step-by-step guide to manage change effectively as you ...

Putting your databases in the public cloud might be scary, but the rewards are substantial. Here's how this fictional company does it. Just Another Big Business (JABB) Systems International is a ...

My last couple of months have been filled with a major migration to Microsoft Azure for a client, who has both a very large data warehouse and an online transaction processing (OLTP) Web site. In all, ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure-enabled ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server Migration Assistant lets you move your data and schema to different SQL Servers. Here’s what you need to know about the tool. The Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant is a ...

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 ...