To migrate a non-SQL Server database—such as Microsoft Access, Sybase, MySQL, Oracle, or IBM DB2—to Azure SQL Database, Microsoft offers the SQL Server Migration Assistant.

Microsoft has recently launched Azure SQL Managed Instances as an alternative to Azure SQL. These are a PaaS implementation of SQL Server, and using them as a migration target can simplify the ...

In Azure, once the application logic is packaged into containers, they’ll work within the IaaS services as well as to managed PaaS offerings including the Azure SQL Database Managed Instance ...

The migration used log shipping and the transition happened cleanly. For the application tier, we used Azure Traffic Manager, which works as a global load balancer, allowing traffic to flow to Web ...

Second much of the PaaS services on Azure span PaaS and IaaS deployments letting you easily mix VM role and Worker role components in the same service; sharing the same network configuration ...

When you run SQL Server on Azure, you have a couple of options. You can bring your own license or you can use a pay-as-you-go license, where you effectively rent your SQL Server license as part of ...

Gavriella Schuster, Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner (OCP) at Microsoft Corp. added, “The Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure advanced specialization ...

Current Azure services, like Azure ML (machine learning), AzureDB (Microsoft's NoSQL service), and others will either remain as they are — in almost a vertical PaaS form, or evolve, depending on ...