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Minimize the downtime when migrating SQL workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance

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Oct 03, 2023
Database migrations are challenging...   Migrating SQL Server databases and workloads to the cloud is an involved project. It is not all about just moving the data. There is also setting up the i...
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Oct 30, 2023

HusamHilal there will be some downtime since we cannot guarantee that the DNS changes will propagate to all clients at the exact same moment nor that the failover will align with them. However, this procedure does ensure that the downtime is as short as possible.