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 lies data 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 the knowledge, skills, and hands-on practice needed to successfully plan, execute, and optimize data migration projects using Microsoft Azure services. Whether you are a data engineer, database administrator, cloud architect, or IT professional, this course will help you build confidence in managing both small-scale and enterprise-level data migrations.
By the end of this course, you’ll understand the end-to-end data migration lifecycle—from strategy and planning, to tool selection, schema migration, incremental load, and final cutover—using Azure Database Migration Service (DMS), Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Storage, and SQL tools.
You Will Learn:
- The fundamentals of data migration and why it matters in modern cloud strategies.
- Common migration strategies: rehost (lift-and-shift), refactor, re-architect, and rebuild.
- How to assess migration readiness using Microsoft’s Data Migration Assistant (DMA).
- Preparing on-premises SQL Server and other data sources for migration.
- How to choose between online migration (continuous replication) and offline migration (backup and restore).
- Hands-on experience with Azure Database Migration Service (DMS).
- 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.
