Data Migration Essentials with Azure Cloud-Basic Concepts

Learn practical strategies, tools & hands-on demos for seamless data migration to Azure cloud platforms

What you'll learn
- Understand the fundamentals of data migration and why it is important for modern businesses.
- Learn different data migration strategies such as full load, incremental load, and continuous replication.
- Prepare an on-premises SQL Server for migration to Azure.
- Apply data transformation techniques using Python & Pandas for cleaning and preparing datasets before migration.

Requirements
- A basic understanding of databases (tables, queries, relationships).
- Familiarity with SQL Server (creating tables, inserting data, SELECT queries).
- Basic knowledge of Azure services will be helpful, but not mandatory.
- A PC, laptop, or even a mobile phone to watch the course videos.
- A stable internet connection for accessing Azure services and course resources.
- An Azure account – you can use either a free subscription (with free credits) or a paid subscription for practicing the demos.

Description
In today’s digital era, organizations are moving away from on-premises systems and legacy databases toward modern, cloud-native solutions. At the heart of this transformation liesdata migration—a critical process that ensures business information is securely and efficiently transferred to the cloud without disrupting operations.

This course,Data Migration Essentials with Azure Cloud, is designed to provide you with theknowledge, skills, and hands-on practiceneeded to successfully plan, execute, and optimize data migration projects usingMicrosoft Azure services. Whether you are a data engineer, database administrator, cloud architect, or IT professional, this course will help youbuild confidencein managing both small-scale and enterprise-level data migrations.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand theend-to-end data migration lifecycle—from strategy and planning, to tool selection, schema migration, incremental load, and final cutover—usingAzure Database Migration Service (DMS), Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Storage, and SQL tools.

You Will Learn

The fundamentals ofdata migrationand why it matters in modern cloud strategies.

Common migration strategies: rehost (lift-and-shift), refactor, re-architect, and rebuild.

How toassess migration readinessusing Microsoft’s Data Migration Assistant (DMA).

Preparing on-premises SQL Server and other data sources for migration.

How to choose betweenonline migration(continuous replication) andoffline migration(backup and restore).

Hands-on experience withAzure Database Migration Service (DMS).

Who this course is for:
- Data Engineers & Database Administrators who want to migrate workloads to Azure.
- IT Professionals & Cloud Engineers exploring database modernization projects.
- Students & Beginners interested in learning Azure Data Migration step by step.
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