Bharat Kumar Dokka is a distinguished Associate Technical Architect with over 15 years of experience in database product ...

Bitscape archives Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure advanced specialization and joins group of select few Microsoft partners.

The Database Migration Service is a serverless tool to migrate MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases to Cloud SQL with a few clicks.

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 ...

Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options.

Specifically, Microsoft is formally launching its SQL Server 2017 database software, an Oracle database migration tool, and finally, the ambitious Azure Stack "hybrid" cloud system.

Microsoft capped off a week of high-profile announcements related to SQL Server with an aggressive migration offer aimed at Oracle database customers. Here's the bottom line, from Microsoft's ...

An upgrade involves installing SQL Server 2014 on top of your existing SQL Server deployment, whereas a migration involves setting up new SQL Servers and migrating data to the new environment.

Microsoft SQL Server version migrations are one of the more difficult activities for a DBA to execute, yet they are a very common change to the infrastructure. Databases eventually have to be migrated ...