Recently, I was approached by a small but growing technology company with an urgent problem: Microsoft’s announcement regarding the retirement of Azure Database for MariaDB had caught them completely ...

Cloud Migration consists of moving organizational assets such as applications, databases, IT resources and services. This could be either lift and shift or Re Platform or RE Factor or Rewrite. Clear ...

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Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database service that supports transactional processing and analytics. With a 30-plus year history, SQL Server has been a mainstay at many organizations. Now, ...

Due to my background working with other major database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, I’ve long been an advocate for the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). This powerful and easy ...

As an IT professional working for a small to mid-sized organization you are not only in charge of the servers, desktops, firewalls, routers, switches and mobile devices… you’re the chief, cook and ...

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A lot of companies are thinking about data migration. Either it’s something they know they have to do, something they’re actively working on or something they’ve already tried with limited success.

SEE: Data migration testing checklist: Through pre- and post-migration (TechRepublic Premium) Minimally, this evolution means commercial cloud providers will need to develop and adopt better ways to ...