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I am preparing for Microsoft Ignite | The Tour and have been playing around quite a bit with Azure Monitor and the Azure Automation state tracking capabilities. One of the features I’ve found impressive is the ability to track the state of specific fil… Continue reading Azure Monitor: Detecting and Alerting on File Changes
TL/DR: When using Azure Boards to track work items, these work items can be linked to GitHub commits and pull requests. When doing so, updates to the pull requests are also noted in the work item. Once the pull request has been merged, the Azure Boards… Continue reading How to Link Azure Boards with GitHub Commits and Pull Requests
TL/DR: Azure Resource Locking helps prevent inadvertent resource deletion and modification. For more information see the Azure Resource Locking documentation.
Azure Role Based Access Control (RBAC) allows us to restrict access to resources and r… Continue reading How to Lock Azure Resources to Prevent Modification or Deletion
TL/DR: The Azure CLI can be used to query data from Azure. For more information on how to use the Azure CLI query functionality, see the Azure CLI Query documentation.
The Azure CLI can be used to not only create, configure, and delete resources… Continue reading How to query Azure resources using the Azure CLI
Microsoft is confident its cloud services can meet the needs of the vast majority of our customers and there should seldom be a need to discontinue their use. But some organizations require a clearly defined process to discontinue the usage and any dep… Continue reading How to prepare an Azure Information Protection “Cloud Exit” plan
First published on MSDN on Dec 21, 2018
Authored by rajpo@microsoft.com
The Azure Database Migration Service is a fully managed service designed to enable seamless migrations from multiple database sources to Azure data platforms with minimal dow… Continue reading Announcing General Availability of Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) Premium Tier
First published on MSDN on Nov 09, 2018
Authored by datamigrationteam@microsoft.com
What’s new with the latest updates?
The latest updates to the Database Migration Guide include:
Launched a new and enhanced user interface that makes it… Continue reading Database Migration Guide: October 2018 Updates
First published on MSDN on Oct 22, 2018
Authored by datamigrationteam@microsoft.com
Overview
SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Oracle, MySQL, SAP ASE (formerly SAP Sybase ASE), DB2, and Access allows users to convert a database schem… Continue reading Release: SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v7.11