With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...

The Azure Migrate tool can now be used by organizations to help plan moves of their on-premises virtual machines (VMs) and applications to Azure datacenter infrastructure, Microsoft announced on ...

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The only way to get extended support for 2008 versions of Windows and SQL Server is in the cloud. Here’s why you should be thinking about 2012 migrations now as well. The release of Windows Server ...

Microsoft recently announced the public availability of the Azure Copilot Migration Agent, an AI-driven assistant built into the Azure portal that aims to simplify and accelerate the planning and ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...