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Ahmad Osama
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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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Shashikant Shakya
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Shashikant Shakya

Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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Migrating an SQL Server workload to SQL Managed Instance

SQL Managed Instance is nearly 100% compatible with SQL Server (on-premises or on Azure Virtual Machines) and provides easy lift and shift when migrating databases from an on-premises environment.

You get the following benefits when migrating to SQL Managed Instance:

  • Easy migration with minimal application changes
  • Saved costs by using existing SQL Server licenses under Azure Hybrid Benefit
  • Managed service benefit, wherein you can concentrate on database development and optimization, while backup, restore, business continuity, security, and scaling are provided out of the box

You can attain SQL Server database compatibility using Data Migration Assistant and then migrate the schema and the data using any of the migration methods discussed in Chapter 4, Backups, such as backup and restore, transactional replication, or Azure Data Migration Services.

SQL Managed Instance works well with single-instance...

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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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Shashikant Shakya

Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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