1. Migrating your SQL Server Instance
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Migrating your SQL Server Instance
Brandon Lukes
Have an old SQL instance hanging around and need to migrate it? Have you had issues migrating a SQL instance before? Well we will cover the basics of migrating SQL. This includes planning, preparing your current environment, setting up the new environment, migrating the databases, and validation.
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2. Brandon Lukes Microsoft SQL Premier Field Engineer
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Brandon Lukes
Microsoft SQL Premier Field Engineer
Indianapolis, IN
12+ years experience with SQL
Hobbies include family, movies, gaming, beer
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3. Agenda Planning for your migration Preparing for the migration
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Agenda
Planning for your migration
Preparing for the migration
Migrating to the new environment
How many people have migrated environments?
Planning: why are you migrating?
Preparing: setting yourself up for success
Migrating: process to move your environment
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4. What we aren’t covering
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What we aren’t covering
Version to version specifics
Hardware requirements
In-place upgrades (or rolling)
Log Shipping
Upgrading SSAS/SSIS/SSRS
Feature specifics (encryption, in-memory, stretch, AGs, replication)
New features
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5. Planning your migration
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Planning your migration
What is your objective?
What are the requirements?
What is your plan?
What defines success?
Objective: software out of support, hardware refresh, business requirements, new features
Requirements: hardware, OS, upgrade paths
Plan: checklist, testing, know what to expect, communication
Success: timeframe, downtime, verification
Who defines?
Failure: rollback
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6. Research! Research deprecated/breaking features SQL Best Practices
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Research!
Research deprecated/breaking features
MSDN
Extended Events!
SQL Best Practices
Configurations, physical/virtual, maintenance, security
Research new features
In-memory OLTP, AlwaysOn, Columnstore, Query Store, etc
Best Practices
File location, autogrow, sizing
MAX DOP, Max Server Memory
Tempdb
Maintenance
Backups, Indexes, Stats, Integrity Checks
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7. Preparing for your migration Current System
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Preparing for your migration Current System
Fix findings from SQL Upgrade Advisor
Replace deprecated/breaking features
Consolidation
Clean-Up
Fix findings (or app/developers fix)
Compatibility mode?
Research deprecated/breaking features (code that is running)
Consolidation (combine instances and databases)
Clean-Up (unused databases, unused logins, orphaned DB users)
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8. Upgrade Advisor
Demo

9. Preparing for your migration New Environment
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Preparing for your migration New Environment
Verify Servers built correctly
Install SQL and patch
Configure SQL to your best practices
Test third party tools
Create backup and maintenance jobs
Test (and test again)
Verify Servers built correctly (and configured) – disks, cluster
Install SQL and patch – all CUs – SQL Azure is tested
Configure SQL to your best practices (port, user access, etc) - vendor
Test third party tools (backups, monitoring, auditing)
Create backup and maintenance jobs
Test migration (and test again)
Get timing down
New client tools
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10. Communication is Key Impacted teams Infrastructure teams Timeline
App, Dev, Business
Meetings? s?
Infrastructure teams
You’ll need hardware and support
Timeline
Start/end
Communication plan
Client tools
Connection strings
Other tools
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11. Migrating to New Environment Current System
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Migrating to New Environment Current System
Logins
Server role permissions
System database objects
SQL Agent jobs
Backup databases
or detach/move/attach
Script out current logins – SSIS source/destination OR sp_help_revlogin – users and hashed passwords
Script out objects or permissions from system databases – USERS, PERMISSIONS, OBJECTS, startup procs
Script out SQL Agent jobs (often overlooked, COTS apps)
Backup databases
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12. Script Objects
Demo

13. Migrating to New Environment New Environment
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Migrating to New Environment New Environment
Migrate system objects
Restore databases
Migrate logins
Run checkdb
Index maintenance and update stats
Migrate jobs (SSIS)
Run validation checks
Migration objects and permissions from system databases
Restore databases
Migrate logins
Run checkdb (to check for any corruption in inconsistencies)
Rebuild/reorg indexes and update stats (to reduce chance of poor performance)
Migrate jobs
Run validation checks (database, jobs, applications)
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14. Testing FTW! Installation Configuration Scripts (backups, logins, etc)
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Testing FTW!
Installation
Configuration
Scripts (backups, logins, etc)
Workload
Make sure things don’t break
Extended Events (capture deprecated stuff)
Get old workload (Profiler, Extended Events)
Use ostress, Profiler, SQL Load Test, or distributed replay
deprecation_announcement - Occurs when you use a feature that will be removed from a future version of SQL Server, but will not be removed from the next major release of SQL Server.
deprecation_final_support - Occurs when you use a feature that will be removed from the next major release of SQL Server.
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15. Links Supported Version and Edition Upgrades
Upgrade to SQL Server 2016
Use Extended Events to find deprecated events
SSMS
sp_help_revlogin

16. Recap Planning for your migration Preparing for the migration
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Recap
Planning for your migration
Preparing for the migration
Migrating to the new environment
Planning: WHY? Objectives? Define SUCCESS
Preparing: setting yourself up for success
Migrating: process to move your environment, TEST, VALIDATE
Next Steps: planning for your future
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