1. MIGRATIONS 101 Gilda Alvarez Sr. Database Administrator
Vistana Signature Experience
PASS Chapter Leader for Orlando SQL Students
Information Technology Committee for ALPFA
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2. Agenda
Introduction
Migration Checklist
Plan and Organize
Collect Data
Migration
Post Migration

3. Sr. Database Administration
WHO AM I?
Database
Administration
Vistana
Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems and Computer Science from UCF
15 years in IT
IBM, HMH, Darden, SAIC, Deloitte
Student
Sr. Database Administration

6. Moving is a PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only constant thing is change

7. MOVING CHECKLIST APPLICATION COMPATABILITY
STORAGE (Datafiles, backups, capacity planning)
COLLECT DATA (DEMO )recover model, db owner, auto stats, trustworthy)
SERVER COLLATION ( SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS).
EXTERNAL DEPENDENCIES (external data, SQL, Oracle, DB2)
DATABASE ENCRYPTION

8. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO ASK
LINK SERVERS
CROSS DATABASE REFERENCES
APPLICATIONS OR SERVICES ON THE SQL SERVER
DTS/SSIS PACKAGES
MIIRRORING AND ALWAYS ON
SQL OR WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION
SERVER CONFIGURATION

9. PLAN AND ORGANIZE https://dbatools.io/

10. Demo Gather inventory
.\Get-SqlServerInventoryToClixml.ps1 -ComputerName oocl0013
.\Convert-SqlServerInventoryClixmlToExcel.ps1 -FromPath "C:\Users\admgalvarez\Documents\SQL Server Inventory xml.gz"

11. Cleanup time DROP ORPHAN USERS DROP DISABLED LOGINS DROP DISABLED JOBS
PASSWORD POLICY ENFORNCING

12. CHRISSY LEMAIRE

13. MIGRATION UNPACKING
Demo
Database migration

15. New home
Make sure your user community knows the information of YOUR NEW HOME
SERVER NAME
PORT
RUN STATISTICS
Test connectivity

16. CREATE C-NAME ENTRY ON DNS WIITH OLD SERVER NAME

18. HAVE A SAFE MOVE!!!!