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Migrating data

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Migrating data

- [Presenter] Okay, so we've looked at how we can create a SQL Server managed instance in Azure, and that will give us a platform to host our databases. But what about the data? How do we move our physical data, that is our files and other resources, into the cloud? Let's start by thinking about what files we actually have. Like many small businesses, H+ has accumulated a lot of data over the years. There are accounting records, invoices, purchase orders, that sort of thing. There's all the user documents for every individual user account, word documents, images, spreadsheets. We then have our production files that feed into our production software. We also have backups from our servers and a whole host of other files. All in all, these files use about four terabytes in storage and they need to be moved to Azure. Now there are several ways we could get this data into Azure. If we're adding faster blob storage, for…

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