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Data Migration Assistant

Data Migration Assistant

- [Instructor] This is the aforementioned Data Migration Assistant. A Windows tool which can actually do two things. And if you'll recall the UI of Azure Migrate which we've just had a look at. Remember? There were option to assess what's there and to migrate what's there and these two project types can be created here by clicking on the plus. So how about we call this the assessment project one. We assess the database engine. We could also assess the integration services. The source server, in our case the SQL server, and the target server type is Azure SQL Database. There are other options as well. So when we set up the project we have to pick which types of report we would like. Would we like to check whether source and target databases are compatible with each other? And/or do we want to verify that they have feature parity? I'm interested in both. So let's hit next. Then connect to the server, so in our case…

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