Database migrations can be hard, but you can make it predictable and less painful through diligent preparation and collecting the right information in advance. Join me for this talk to learn about how to structure you migration and see in action how great tools ease the pain of the whole undertaking

An essential part of migrating your application workload to the cloud is how to transfer your data securely to its new home. If you in addition want to change the underlying database system, for instance Oracle to SQL Server, it can quickly escalate to an overwhelming task. What if your application have a very high uptime requirement and your database is so large that you don’t not have a downtime window long enough to do a traditional backup/restore operation? In order to overcome these pain points we have available services and tools that alleviate these pains and brings your valuable data safely across with near-zero downtime.

In this talk we will:
- Guide you through how to set up a migration process with checks and balances
- Get an overview of the tools provided by Microsoft and dive into the details of Data Migration Assistant
- Have explained the migration services provided in Azure
- Demonstrate near-zero-downtime migration for a live database on Azure