DMA tool replaces SQL server with effective performance and improvement standards

Data Migration Assistant (DMA) is an effective replacement to modern SQL server that works wonderful by detecting compatibility issues and it impacts database functionalities after significant upgrade. The reliable performance and improvements by platform are perfectly planned for targeted environments.

Every time when SQL server is upgraded, there may be certain compatibility issues that are necessary to work with. These issues can be categorized as – breaking changes, behavior changes, deprecated changes etc. However, it may also help in discovering new benefits that can help one database in different ways like performance, storage, installation, or security etc.

This is easy to download DMA tool on to your system. You just have to access download link from Microsoft Download Center and install setup on your computer. Don’t forget to follow basic guidelines and terms of the software for successful installation of Microsoft tool.

DMA has released by Oracle to analyze or recommend best data platform for consumers. This particular tool has various benefits when used correctly by the customers. Here are best practices how to use and adopt Data Migration Assistant (DMA) tool. You should always follow these best practices before any actual implementation of tool –

• Assessments should not run over production databases during peak hours.
• Deal with compatibility issues and recommendations separately to reduce overall assessment duration and implementation time.
• Set a limit on assessments up to 10 databases or less otherwise it may affect final performance of the tool.
• DMA tool should never be installed on SQL server host machine directly.

During the release event of DMA, most interesting features of tool were highlighted that includes detection of compatibility issues every time you are upgrading to new SQL server and new features recommendation in coming versions of SQL server. The implementation of DMA tool can be made just better with right techniques and research.

The things you should focus on when working on DMA tool --

• Migration tip - Server should always be migrated during non peak hours.
• General tip – DMA tool should not be installed on host machine of SQL server directly.
• Database access – Always define a limit for database access to optimize overall performance of tool.
• Assessments – Don’t forget to assess compatibility issues and recommendation features separately to manage overall assessment duration.

Data migration on different servers

When migrating some database, you should define single location that can be accessed by both source and target servers. You should avoid copy operations otherwise it may introduce delays later. There are chances that migration may result into failure due to unnecessary copy operations. Further, make sure that right permissions are given to files that need to be exchanged on server. The guidelines for right permissions are already given along with the too. When permissions are not correct then files cannot be shared on network machines.

If you are an advance user then use SSL encryption technique to make your data safe on server during exchange operations. It may slow down transfer operations but really helpful in the long run.