Each workshop aims to deliver a series of comprehensive outcomes:

Determining the level of risk from an SQL perspective, and the threat this presents to ‘business as usual’.

Support for future planning by assessing your SQL environment in line with the potential for future upgrades or migration activity including:

• Automation of tasks – understanding how SQL Agent could be used for index maintenance, the updating of statistics, query optimisation and your options moving forwards
• Application compatibility and compatibility options with newer versions of SQL, Azure SQL and SQL Managed Instances
• Data analytics – assessing your system’s existing stored procedures and common language runtime
• Backup, DR and resilience – evaluating options for moving forwards, including the cloud dimension (Failover Cluster Instances, Availability Groups and Georeplication)

Help for optimising SQL Costs including a ‘how to’ analysis covering options such as Azure SQL Serverless and Elastic Pools.

Simplifying the complex by detailing what you can do to make any upgrade or migration as seamless as possible, across Azure SQL Managed Instances, SQL Server on Cloud Virtual Machines, Data Migration Assistant, and Data Migration Service.