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Automate migration to SQL Managed Instance using Azure PowerShell and DbaTools

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Aug 30, 2019

In Microsoft Azure, you can easily migrate your databases from SQL Server on-premises or Azure VMs to the fully-managed PaaS database service Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. In this post you wil...

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KFeit

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Oct 13, 2020

This is a great post to provide a simple and efficient method for migrating to Managed Instance. However, it is using SAS tokens on the source backup, which are only supported for SQL 2016 and later. Can you please provide an example for performing a backup to a page blob with the credential specified on the Backup-DbaDatabase command? Many organizations are on 2012 or 2014 and may be interested in moving to Managed Instance instead of upgrading on premise.