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Published inJul 2018
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ISBN-139781789538854
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Ahmad Osama
Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Determining the Migration Method


Once you find and fix compatibility issues, the next step is to select a migration tool or method and perform the actual migration. There are different methods available for various scenarios. The selection largely depends on downtime, database size, and network speed/quality.

Here's a comparison of various migration methods to help you correctly choose a migration method:

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Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Migration Method

Description

Downtime

Database Size

SQL Server Management Studio – Deploy Database to Azure SQL Database

Wizard-based GUI to export on-premises database to bacpac and import the bacpac onto Azure SQL Database.

Yes (depends on database size)

Small to Medium databases

Sqlpackage.exe

Command-line utility to export on-premises databases to bacpac and import the bacpac on to Azure SQL Database.

Yes (Depends on database size)

Small to Medium databases

Manual (Dacpac and BCP)

Use sqlpackage.exe to export dacpac (only schema) and bcp out data in a folder...