Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Now Available in Preview
News|9 April 2018
Lift and shift your on-premise SQL Server deployments to the cloud with minimal changes with the release of Azure SQL Database Managed Instances, now in preview.
Azure SQL Database Managed Instances now enables you to take advantage of all the benefits of PaaS with near 100% compatibility for existing SQL Server Database instances.
The days of existing SQL Server deployments not being compatible with Azure SQL Database PaaS due to non-transferrable capabilities like SQLAgent, DBMail and Change Data Capture are gone.
Legacy apps are no longer stuck on-premise!
If you’d like to find out more about SQL Database Managed Instance in preview get in touch, call us on +44 (0)1364 654100 or email [email protected].
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