Enhanced 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:Release Announcement of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v 10.1
Overview SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) Access, DB2, MySQL, Oracle, and SAP ASE (formerly SAP Sybase ASE) allow users to convert a database schema to a Microsoft SQL Server schema, deploy the schema, and then migrate data to the target SQL Server (see below for supported versions). What’s new? Enhanced monitoring experience for migrations using DMS [ SSMA-Oracle] Migrating Oracle workloads using Azure Database Migration service is in preview, please refer for more details. For Oracle workloads migrating using DMS in SSMA, we are bringing an enhanced monitoring experience through tabular user interface where the users can now view live list of migrations that are in progress or completed phase. Each entry represents a migration activity along with the start time of migration, DMS used for migration and status. Users can view quick brief migration information of individual tables to know more information like Table name, Schema name, copy duration, No. of Rows copied & status real-time. For the sake of users requiring more granular monitoring information about their migration activity, SSMA provides a link to the Azure Database Migration service portal webpage (View Comprehensive Report) where they can view details like Data read, writes, Rows copies, Throughput along with copy duration, etc. Code Conversion Improvements [DB2, Oracle] Conversion enhancements for identity column from Db2 z/OS to SQL Server 2019 Improve conversion of Db2 stored procedure WITH RETURN clause to Azure SQL Database Improve database objects load for Db2 Appropriate error handling for conversion of identifier REPLACE(STRING, CHAR,CHAR) in Db2 Detection of CHAR length in Oracle VARCHAR2 datatype Downloads SSMA for Access SSMA for DB2 SSMA for MySQL SSMA for Oracle SSMA for SAP ASE Supported sources and target versions Source: For the list of supported sources, please review the information on the Download Center for each of the above SQL Server Migration Assistant downloads. Target: SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2019, Azure SQL Database, an Azure SQL Database managed instance Resources SQL Server Migration Assistant documentation
Migration Data Factory pipelines between tenants
Hi everybody. I need your help please. I'm trying to migrate several Data Factory pipelines between 2 diferent fabric tenants. I'm using Azure DevOps to move all the workspaces, I created the connections with the same name but when I try to restore the data factory pipelines it return an error than datafactory pipielines can't be created because doesn't find the connections. I was trying to update the connection ID but I don't find them into the json file. How can I migrate these data factories and reconnect to the new connections?Public Preview announcement - Unified migration experience in Azure DMS
We are excited to announce that Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports seamless migration of your MySQL on-premises or Virtual Machine (VM) workloads to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. This new feature, now available in public preview, allows you to use physical backup files of the MySQL server for migration. By restoring your physical data files directly to your target Flexible Server, you can migrate multi-terabyte workloads quickly and effortlessly with minimal downtime ensuring a smooth and efficient transition to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server, enabling you to take full advantage of the platform's capabilities. To migrate your workloads using the Physical Online Data Migration option in Azure DMS, you need to take backups of your workload on the source server using Percona Xtrabackup utility. After taking a backup, upload the backup files to Azure Blob Storage. DMS can read the uploaded backup files from Azure Blob Storage and apply them on the target flexible server for rapid movement of large workloads to MySQL flexible server. To get started, go to your DMS project and choose "[Preview] Physical Online Data Migration" for migrating your workloads from on-premises or VMs. Limitations: You must create and configure the target Flexible server prior to migrating your physical backup files. Migration for encrypted backups isn't supported. Migration cancellation during the import operation is not supported. For more information about using physical online migration with Azure DMS please follow our detailed step-by-step instructions in our documentation: https://aka.ms/dmsPhysicalImportOnlineMigration If you have any feedback or questions about the information provided above, please leave a comment below or email us at AskAzureDBforMySQL@service.microsoft.com. Thank you!
GitHub Copilot and SSMA: Strap a GenAI conversion booster to your Oracle to SQL Migrations
In this blog, we’ll explore how GitHub Copilot and SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Oracle can supercharge your code conversion journey from PL/SQL to T-SQL. Learn how both these tools bring comprehensive conversion rule set and Generative AI capabilities together to simplify and expedite your migration journey from Oracle to Azure SQL.Migrating from AWS RDS for MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL - Considerations and Approaches
This post covers various strategies for migrating AWS RDS for MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL, how to use them to maximize efficiency and cost savings, different migration considerations, the importance of proper planning and preparation, and potential pitfalls that can arise during the process.Migrating an Azure Database for MySQL single server (v5.6) to a flexible server (v5.7)
If you’re still hosting databases on MySQL v5.6, this post is for you! I’ll provide details about the migration strategy and a plan for moving your v5.6 instances to MySQL v5.7 and further, to our Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server offering, which provides more granular control and flexibility over database management functions and configuration settings.A Step-by-Step Guide to migrate data from Elasticsearch to Azure Data Explorer(ADX) using Logstash
Data migration is the process of transferring data from one source to another. It can be a complex and time-consuming task, especially when dealing with large amounts of data. This article is an extension to an existing article to migrate data from Elastic Search to Azure Data Explorer (ADX) using Logstash pipeline as a step-step-step guide.
