Month: March 2019

First published on MSDN on Mar 22, 2018
Authored by gennadyk@microsoft.com
Google Cloud Platform is a suite of public cloud computing services offered by Google. The platform includes a range of hosted services for compute, storage, and applicatio… Continue reading Migrating SQL Server databases from a Google Compute Engine instance to Azure SQL Database using the Azure Database Migration Service→

First published on MSDN on Mar 21, 2018
Authored by datamigrationteam@microsoft.com
Recently Microsoft announced the Public Preview Azure Database Migration Service (Azure DMS) , a new way to migrate your data from a SQL Server database or from o… Continue reading Migrating data On-Premises to Azure with the new Azure Database Migration Service (VPN Site-to-Site)→

First published on MSDN on Jan 22, 2018
Authored by datamigrationteam@microsoft.com
Amazon Web Services EC2 is a great Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, and many organizations use it to host SQL Server instances. Using an IaaS platform … Continue reading Migrating a SQL Server Database from AWS EC2 to Azure SQL Database by using the Microsoft Data Migration Assistant (DMA)→

First published on MSDN on Oct 13, 2017
Authored by datamigrationteam@microsoft.com
Microsoft provides a suite of tools and services designed to assist users with migrating various types of source databases to a variety of target environments.&nbsp… Continue reading Differentiating Microsoft’s Database Migration Tools and Services→

The text in this post, originally created in four parts, has been incorporated into the technical documentation for Data Migration Assistant (DMA), in the article Assess an enterprise and consolidate assessment reports with DMA. 
 
Please ref… Continue reading Assess an Enterprise With Data Migration Assistant→

The Microsoft Data Migration Blog on MSDN is being retired in March 2019, and relevant posts have been migrated to this new location in the Microsoft Tech Community.
 
In the future, all links to the MSDN blog or posts it contained will be redirec… Continue reading Welcome to the new home of the Microsoft Data Migration Blog!→

Hi everyone! My friend Alexander Ehlers and I made a little time-manipulating, first-person, platform game called Tyd wag vir Niemand and we are proud to announce that it is now available on both Xbox One and Windows 10 with Xbox Play Anywhere support. We wanted to give you all an abstract adventure that will take you to another dimension, and that we hope gives you a fresh take on first-person platform games. We just really like trippy environments; they always feel so satisfying to explore and we’re pretty sure you’ll agree. Tyd wag vir Niemand is set in a future… Continue reading Time-Twisting, Abstract Platformer Tyd wag vir Niemand Available Now on Xbox One and Windows 10→

We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you can feast your eyes on our weekly video show above. Be sure to come back every Friday to find out what’s happening This Week on Xbox! GDC 2019: The Women in Gaming Rally 2019 Recap Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) is always an exciting time of… Continue reading This Week on Xbox: March 22, 2019→