The clock is ticking on Microsoft’s Extended Support for SQL Server 2008/R2, unless you migrate to the Azure cloud. Here’s how ...

The main advantage to using a tool like Azure Migrate is that it builds on many years of experience with Azure migrations by Microsoft’s own consulting services.

Microsoft is making it seamless to move any SQL Server application to Azure without application changes with the new deployment option in Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance. Managed Instance offers ...

As SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reach the end of support in 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to upgrade to a cloud database service. Follow this step-by-step guide to manage change effectively as ...

My last couple of months have been filled with a major migration to Microsoft Azure for a client, who has both a very large data warehouse and an online transaction processing (OLTP) Web site. In ...

Making migration to Microsoft’s Azure products and services easier is a big theme this week at Ignite, the company’s annual conference for developers and IT professionals. The Redmond, Wash ...

The strategic migration and consolidation of SQL server farms to the cloud, supported by automation technology, can result in benefits and pave the way for continued innovation, data utilization ...

Shattering any doubts about the Azure Cloud's ability to handle the world's most-complex and data-intensive workloads, Microsoft recently said that some of its largest customers are migrating ...