Introducing Azure SQL Database offline migrations for the Azure SQL migration extension
The new migration capability in the Azure SQL Migration extension provides an end-to-end experience to modernize SQL Server to Azure SQL Database. The extension allows you to perform a migration readiness check with actions to remediate possible migration blockers, export the assessment results, and get right-sized Azure recommendations.
General Availability - DMS's PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Python SDK
We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of DMS client tools - PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python SDK and more. This milestone unlocks efficient, stable, and scalable automation options for database migration workflows—making it easier than ever to integrate DMS into your DevOps pipelines and enterprise migration strategies. 💡Introduction: With the general availability of DMS client tools - PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python SDK, users can now use stable release of: PowerShell module 1.0.0 (https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Az.DataMigration/1.0.0) Azure CLI extension 1.0.0 (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/datamigration?view=azure-cli-latest) DMS V2 APIs (version 2025-06-30) SDKs for multiple languages (listed below) SDKs Releases: Language GA Package / Link .Net https://www.nuget.org/packages/Azure.ResourceManager.DataMigration/1.0.0 Java https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/com.azure.resourcemanager/azure-resourcemanager-datamigration/1.1.0 Go https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/datamigration/armdatamigration/v2 Python azure-mgmt-datamigration · PyPI JavaScript https://www.npmjs.com/package/@azure/arm-datamigration/v/3.0.0 🔧 What’s New? Three new commands have been introduced in the latest releases of the SDK, PowerShell module, and CLI extension, as outlined below: New CLI Commands: az datamigration sql-db retry - Retry the failed SQL DB migrations. az datamigration sql-managed-instance delete - Delete Azure SQL MI’s Database Migration resource. az datamigration sql-vm delete - Delete Azure SQL VM’s Database Migration resource. New PowerShell Commands: Invoke-AzDataMigrationRetryToSqlDb - Retry the failed SQL DB migrations. Remove-AzDataMigrationToSqlManagedInstance - Delete Azure SQL MI’s Database Migration resource. Remove-AzDataMigrationToSqlVM - Delete Azure SQL VM’s Database Migration resource. 🚀Conclusion: With this GA / stable release, users can now: Use them to configure and execute migrations with full control. Automate migrations: DevOps teams can embed migration steps into CI/CD pipelines. Integrate into custom applications and orchestration tools. These support all the DMS migration scenarios—from simple lift-and-shift operations to complex logical migrations—while ensuring stability, and repeatability. For more details, refer: Documentation: Migrate databases at scale using Azure PowerShell / CLI PowerShell: Az.DataMigration Module Azure CLI: az datamigration Python SDK: azure-mgmt-datamigration · PyPIEnhanced SQL Migration Tracking & Bringing SQL Server Arc Assessments to Azure Data Studio
In the ever-evolving landscape of data management, ensuring seamless and efficient migrations is crucial for businesses. Migration is a multi-step process and typically requires multiple tools to complete the migration. To enhance the migration experience, we are bringing a new feature that enhances the migration tracking experience across tools. In this blog post we delve into the benefits this feature offers to streamline the migration tracking process. This feature is available for Azure Data studio users via the latest Azure SQL Migration extension v1.5.8 The Azure SQL migration extension now offers 2 new features in ADS to help users in their migration journey. Ability to view Arc assessments, SKU recommendation in Azure Data Studio Ability to track the migration via SQL Server instance (At no additional cost!) Viewing Arc assessments in Azure Data Studio for SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc If you are planning to migrate SQL Server instances that are Arc-enabled, The Azure Data studio now helps you jump start the migration by providing the ability to view the pre-computed Arc assessments. ADS now provides a link to the pre-computed assessments in the Arc experience Azure portal, which provides migration readiness assessment, SKU recommendation and pricing information (coming soon). Users can continue with rest of their migration journey in the Arc experience. To view the pre-computed assessments computed by Arc, users have to select Yes to the ‘Is your SQL Server instance tracked in Azure? ‘and fill in the Azure resource details of the SQL Server Instance enabled by Azure Arc. The pre-computed assessments and SKU recommendations will be generated as a navigation link to users like below: Ability to streamline the migration tracking process For SQL Server instances which are not Arc-enabled, this feature provides an ability to track the migration by creating an Azure resource with no additional cost associated. Once this resource has been created, users can select this migration resource which is created for their successive migrations that take place for the same source & avail the assessment and readiness benefits. This migration tracking ability is available for both Azure Data Studio and Database migration service portal. Below images show the experience for this ability in Azure DMS portal:
