Pro Database Migration to Azure: Data Modernization for the Enterprise

This book provides best practices for planning, implementing, and operationalizing the migration of a database application from an on-premises data center to Microsoft Azure's cloud platform. It covers technology, organization culture, communication, and politics, ensuring a successful migration and delivering business value. It focuses on migrating on-premises SQL Server enterprises to hybrid or fully cloud-based Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances, and also covers non-SQL Server database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL applications.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 330 pages
Publication date: 09 August 2022
Publisher: APress

This book provides comprehensive guidance on migrating on-premises applications to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. It covers best practices for planning, implementing, and operationalizing the migration process, including considerations for organization culture, communication, and politics. The book emphasizes the importance of data modernization and migration as a technologically complex endeavor that requires careful planning and execution. It covers the most important steps to ensure a successful migration, including executive sponsorship, migration execution, and post-migration steps.

The book is unique in its approach, taking readers through the critical business and technical considerations and workflows for moving data and databases to the cloud, with a special emphasis on those deploying to the Microsoft Data Platform in Azure, particularly SQL Server. While the book focuses on migrating on-premises SQL Server enterprises to hybrid or fully cloud-based Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances, it also covers topics involving migrating non-SQL Server database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL applications to Microsoft Azure.

Throughout the book, industry veterans share their battle-tested wisdom and insights, providing valuable guidance for those embarking on database migration projects. Readers will learn how to effectively plan, execute, and manage migrations, ensuring that their team and database applications deliver on the expected business value of the project.

Whether you are a database administrator, IT professional, or business leader, this book will help you navigate the complexities of migrating on-premises applications to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. It is a valuable resource for anyone looking to optimize their data infrastructure and leverage the benefits of cloud computing.

Weight: 669g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781484282298
Edition number: 1st ed.