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David Rendón, Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, is a highly regarded expert in the Azure cloud platform. With over 15 years of experience as an IT professional, he has been deeply committed to Microsoft technologies, especially Azure, since 2010. With a proven track record of leading and driving strategic success, David has over seven years of management experience, technical leadership, and collaboration skills. David delivers private technical training classes worldwide, covering EMEA, South America, and the US, and he is a frequent speaker at renowned IT events such as Microsoft Ignite, Global Azure, and local user group gatherings in the US, Europe, and Latin America.
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Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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Migrating data

SQL Server is one of the most common database types for older, on-premises-based solutions. In the previous chapter, we also discussed NoSQL-based databases, which include products such as MongoDB or Azure Cosmos DB. However, NoSQL databases work differently, and often, the only way to migrate NoSQL to SQL, or SQL to NoSQL, would be customizing code to read the source data and write to the destination.

Although this is, of course, possible, often your solution will be designed with the underlying technology in mind; therefore, we will instead assume you are looking to migrate from a SQL-based solution to an Azure-hosted SQL solution.

We already discussed some of the different options we have in Azure for hosting SQL databases; as a recap, they are Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, or SQL Server on a VM.

When choosing our desired source, we need to consider several requirements, such as the following:

  • Compatibility—Does your on-premises...
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David Rendón

David Rendón, Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, is a highly regarded expert in the Azure cloud platform. With over 15 years of experience as an IT professional, he has been deeply committed to Microsoft technologies, especially Azure, since 2010. With a proven track record of leading and driving strategic success, David has over seven years of management experience, technical leadership, and collaboration skills. David delivers private technical training classes worldwide, covering EMEA, South America, and the US, and he is a frequent speaker at renowned IT events such as Microsoft Ignite, Global Azure, and local user group gatherings in the US, Europe, and Latin America.
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Brett Hargreaves

Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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