Month: November 2013

Now that you’ve completed analyzing your current database, and worked through that list of items that won’t work with Windows Azure SQL Database (WASD), it’s time to begin testing your new solution.  Testing begins with setting up your test instance of WASD, and loading your test data, then you point your application to that new…

Last time I walked you through how to see if your database will work with Windows Azure SQL Database (WASD) using the Migration Wizard on Codeplex. It’s an easy tool to learn to use, and it answers the question what won’t work if I migrate to SQL Azure.  It will even help you perform the…

As promised we’re going to dive into the details on how we would actually migrate the database from your on premise server to Windows Azure SQL Database.  We’re going to go over how to do this with the SQL Database Migration Wizard.  I’ll be honest, going forward we only use SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), because you get…