Microsoft Azure: Planning, Deploying, and Managing the Cloud

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18. Migrating On-Premises Databases to Azure

Julian Soh¹  , Marshall Copeland², Anthony Puca³ and Micheleen Harris¹

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Washington, WA, USA

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Texas, TX, USA

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Colorado, CO, USA

 

In Chapter 17, we introduced database options and the benefits of consuming database services as a PaaS versus managing database servers.

This chapter covers the options that are available when migrating databases residing on database servers to Azure database PaaS. We mainly focus on migrating Microsoft SQL Servers to Azure SQL Databases, thereby eliminating the overhead of managing servers while realizing better service-level agreements. ...