Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions.

With previews announced at Microsoft's Build Conference, the database migration service will allow developers to migrate on-premises databases to the cloud without so much as a hiccup. One of the ...

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 ...

The most recent release, v8.19, includes migration support from two database platforms, Oracle and SAP ASE (formerly Sybase ASE). (Support for additional database platforms are sure to follow.) The ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software ... it completely cloud-connected to Azure.” He noted that while the migration of on-prem workloads is ...

The company is also offering a preview of a database-migration service that takes data from on-premises SQL Server and Oracle databases and migrates it to Azure SQL Database. Azure SQL Database ...

Assess, migrate, and optimise. Migrating SQL Server to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance: A Step-by-Step Guide is a comprehensive handbook for executing a migration, with guidance on each step ...

Microsoft capped off a week of high-profile announcements related to SQL Server with an aggressive migration offer aimed at Oracle database customers ... data to Microsoft Azure, while retaining ...