Managed Instance link – connecting SQL Server to Azure reimagined

Junli_Antolovich - thank you on your feedback, much appreciate it. I believe I've responded to you through our colleagues a while back, however just to make sure I respond here as well. If I understand you correctly, you have databases with the same name on multiple SQL Servers that you would like to consolidate to a single Managed Instance using our tech described in this blog. Your question was therefore perhaps about renaming the database name on the secondary (SQL MI). In this case, it is not possible to rename the database on the secondary. Our replication technology can copy the exact database name from the primary only (SQL Server), and it does not have the capability to rename that database name on the secondary (SQL MI). In this case, it would therefore not be possible to replicate more than 1 database with the same name onto a single MI (also as a general limitaiton of the SQL Server it is not possible to have the same-name databases on it). If you are going to consolidate all of those databases on a single Managed Instance, they all need to have different names. Perhaps reconsider renaming these databases on-premises, before consolidating on Azure SQL MI. Hope this helps.