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SQL SERVER DRILL DOWN
ON AUGUST 30, MICROSOFT announced the public preview of the Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) to support online migrations of various databases to Azure. What's an "online migration"? Online migration means that your databases remain operational while conducting the migration. This provides quite a few obvious benefits, such as minimum downtime for critical applications, limited impact to service-level agreements (SLAs), and reduced inconvenience to end users. DMS can be used for both operational databases and data warehouse migrations, running on SQL Server and MySQL. PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS online migrations are coming soon.
How Much Does It Cost?
Spoiler alert-all tiers are currently free during the public preview, including the premium Business Critical pricing tier.
Going forward, there are several General Purpose pricing tiers to support offline migrations, also known as "one-time migrations." These General Purpose pricing tiers, which offer a selection of 1-, 2-, and 4-vCore options, are generally...