15 Performing your first advanced SQL Server instance migration, part 1
Within the SQL Server community, simplified migrations sparked wide adoption of not just dbatools but PowerShell as well. The videos showing instance-to-instance migrations, such as sqlps.io/instmigration, resonated with DBAs. This video revolved around our flagship command, Start-DbaMigration, which migrates one entire SQL Server instance to another and can be as straightforward as the code seen in the next listing.
Listing 15.1 Using Start-DbaMigration to migrate one instance to another
PS> Start-DbaMigration -Source sql01 -Destination sql02 -BackupRestore
➥ -SharedPath \\nas\sql\migration
This command wraps a bunch of other Copy-Dba* commands and simplifies a complex process ...
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