SQL Azure Migration Wizard v3.8.4

Updated Wiki: Home

ghuey — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:21:29 GMT

Project Description
SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) is designed to help you migrate your SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 databases to SQL Azure. SQLAzureMW will analyze your source database for compatibility issues and allow you to fully or partially migrate your database schema and data to SQL Azure.

Requirements
SQLAzureMW and tools requires SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 bits to run.

SQL Azure
Microsoft® SQL Azure™ is a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server® technologies. It provides a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant database service hosted by Microsoft in the cloud. To sign up for SQL Azure, go to SQL Azure Special Offers and Pricing Information.

Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure

SQL Azure Federation
SQL Azure Federations allows DBAs to scale out their database by federating (sharding) their database. SQL Azure Federation makes it easier to set up the federated databases, and automate the process of adding new federation members.

For more information on SQL Azure Federations see:

For a limited time, new customers can sign up for SQL Azure and get a 1GB Web Edition Database for no charge…and no commitment. This is a great way to try SQL Azure – and the Windows Azure platform – without the risk. For more information go to Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special

Windows Azure
Microsoft is offering a Windows Azure 3 month free trial, so you can try Windows Azure and SQL Azure for free.
For more information go to Try Windows Azure 3 Month free trial.

SQLAzureMW Supported Languages

SQL Azure MWが、国際対応できたことを発表できて光栄に思う。最初の翻訳言語は、日本語です！
SQL Azure MW unterstützt nun die deutsche Sprache.
SQL Azure MW ondersteunt nu de taal Nederlands.
SQL Azure MW ahora soporta el idioma español.
SQL Azure MW supporte maintenant la langue française
SQL Azure MW 现在支持中文了。

Project Description Continued
SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) is an open source application that has been used by thousands of people to migrate their SQL database to and from SQL Azure. SQLAzureMW is a user interactive wizard that walks a person through the analysis / migration process. One of the main requests from the SQLAzureMW community was to take the user interactive wizard and make it command line driven interface so that it could be used in an automated backup process to back up their SQL Azure schema / data to a data store for disaster recovery. I am excited to let you know that SQLAzureMW now has two tools that can be used from a command line:

SQLAzureMWBatchBackup:
- This is used to create a backup of a database schema and data. The data is downloaded via BCP. The TSQL output from SQLAzureMWBatchBackup can be used by SQLAzureMW or SQLAzureMWBatchUpload.
SQLAzureMWBatchUpload:
- Takes the output from SQLAzureMW or SQLAzureMWBatchBackup and runs it against the target SQL Azure (or SQL Server) server.

Complete documentation for SQLAzureMW, SQLAzureMWBatchBackup and SQLAzureMWBatchUpload can be found on the download site.

The SQLAzureMW tools greatly simplify schema analysis and migration process. If you don’t have an SQL Azure account and have been thinking about moving your data to the cloud (SQL Azure), but have been afraid to try because of “unknowns” like cost, compatibility, and effort? SQL Azure Migration Wizard SQLAzureMW is a free set of open source applications that have been developed by the database community to help you address these issues. SQLAzureMW will help you analyze your SQL Server database for compatibility issues and will migrate your schema and data to SQL Azure.

SQLAzureMW Project Details
The SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) gives you the options to analyzes, generates scripts, and migrate data (via BCP) from:

SQL Server to SQL Azure
SQL Azure to SQL Server
SQL Azure to SQL Azure

It will also analyze SQL Profiler trace files and TSQL script for compatibility issues with SQL Azure.

If your source is a SQL Server database, SQLAzureMW will list all of the object types (i.e. Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, etc.) and let you decide which ones you want analyzed / scripted. Using the “Advanced” options you can tell SQLAzureMW which compatibility checks to perform and if the data should be migrated.
If your source is a file containing TSQL, then you will be given the option to have SQLAzureMW check the TSQL for incompatibilities and fix where possible or just run the script without any compatibility checking.
You can specify a SQL Profiler trace file for analysis.

SQLAzureMWBatchBackup Project Details
The SQLAzureMWBatchBackup is a command line application that will analyze, create TSQL script of database and backup data (via BCP) from a SQL Server or SQL Azure database. The output of SQLAzureMWBatchBackup can be used in SQLAzureMWBatchUpload.

SQLAzureMWBatchUpload Project Details
The SQLAzureMWBatchUpload is a command line application that will run a TSQL script file (and use BCP to upload data) against a target server. SQLAzureMW and SQLAzureMWBatchBackup can be used to generate the TSQL script and the BCP files that can then be used by SQLAzureMWBatchUpload for uploading to a target server. The target server can be SQL Azure or SQL Server.

Configurable
There is a config file “NotSupportedByAzureFile.Config” that is used to define what to look for / replace within the SQL generated code. This file uses RegEx expressions and if you see a pattern that you want removed from the SQL Script, you can put the pattern in the config file and specify what you want to replace it with (if anything).

When the SQL script is generated, an analysis window will be displayed telling you what areas need to be fixed prior to running the script against SQL Azure. Once you are satisfied, you can tell the wizard to run your script against SQL Azure and your script will be ran against your cloud database and the success / failed results will be displayed in a wizard window.

SQL Azure Migration Wizard Utils (SQLAzureMWUtils)
SQLAzureMWUtils is a class library that a developer can use to assist them in developing for SQL Azure. To find out more, read the SQLAzureMWBatch documentation.

Note

SQL Azure Migration Wizard does not catch all of the compatibility issues between different levels of SQL Server databases (i.e. level 80, 90, and 100). SQL Azure is based on SQL Server 2008 (level 100). If you are migrating from an older database (level 80 or 90), you should go through the upgrade process first (at least in the dev environment) and once on SQL Server 2008, then migrate to SQL Azure. Here are some great resources to help you with migrating from older versions of SQL Server:

Further Reading

SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment
Microsoft announced the release of a new experimental cloud service, "SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment" (VSTS573070), as one of SQL Azure Labs. DBAs who are considering moving their SQL Server databases to SQL Azure can use this service to check if the database schema is compatible with SQL Azure grammar. They use SQL Server Data Tools to extract a .dacpac file from the SQL Server database, upload it to our portal1 and get a report listing the schema objects that are not supported in SQL Azure and the objects that need to be fixed prior to deployment into SQL Azure. See the TechNet Wiki for details.

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA): The free Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) makes it easy to migrate data from Oracle, Microsoft Access, MySQL, and Sybase to SQL Server. SSMA converts the database objects to SQL Server database objects, loads those objects into SQL Server, migrates data to SQL Server, and then validates the migration of code and data.

For information on SQL Azure and the Windows Azure Platform, please see the following resources:

We welcome your feedback! Please let us know if you like this tool or how we can improve it!

Commented Issue: Data Difference after export [6794]

ghuey — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:12:53 GMT

I noticed a data discrepancy after I migrated from SQL 2008 r2 to windows SQL azure. The error is with primary key 2099. It did have three dots at the end of the search_code field and after the migration it only has one. I had a unique key on this field and it picked it up as an error. Is it a collation thing? Is it bcp?

Original Data
order_id search_code
2095 10138
2096 10138*
2097 10138.
2098 10138..
2099 10138…

Data after exported into SQL Azure
order_id search_code
2095 10138
2096 10138*
2097 10138.
2098 10138..
2099 10138.

Any help would be appreciated. I am a little worried if my data isn't copied over exactly as it was.

Matt.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: ghuey **

As a side note, I use BCP to export and inport the data. What you can do it you want is truncate the table and just BCP the data up by hand. Also, you can play with the BCP switches in SQLAzureMW.exe.config file (look for BCPArgsIn and BCPArgsOut. For example, you might change the -n to -c. If you use the -c switch, then you can edit the bcp output file and see the data in text and look and see if the data is correct there. Let me know how it goes.

Commented Issue: Data Difference after export [6794]

ghuey — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:04:37 GMT

Taking offline so that we can resolve.

Thanks Matt.

Created Issue: Data Difference after export [6794]

mattdone — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:35:13 GMT

Commented Issue: Doesn't run on Compute [6792]

ghuey — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:02:32 GMT

I tried to run the wizard on my compute instance but it doesn't start - checked the event log and got:

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 2/21/2012 2:20:49 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: RD00155D3A1038
Description:
Faulting application name: SQLAzureMW.exe, version: 3.8.4.0, time stamp: 0x4f3c1bbf
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17651, time stamp: 0x4e211319
Exception code: 0xe0434f4d
Fault offset: 0x0000b9bc
Faulting process id: 0x%9
Faulting application start time: 0x%10
Faulting application path: %11
Faulting module path: %12
Report Id: %13
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-02-21T14:20:49.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>827</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>RD00155D3A1038</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>SQLAzureMW.exe</Data>
<Data>3.8.4.0</Data>
<Data>4f3c1bbf</Data>
<Data>KERNELBASE.dll</Data>
<Data>6.1.7601.17651</Data>
<Data>4e211319</Data>
<Data>e0434f4d</Data>
<Data>0000b9bc</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Comments: ** Comment from web user: ghuey **

Hi,

SQLAzureMW is designed to be an on-premise application. That said, in theory, you should be able to get it up and running in a web role or worker role. What you need to remember is that SQLAzureMW requires SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 bits. Thus not only would you have to package up SQLAzureMW, but you would have to package up SQL Server bits as well (I use SMO and BCP). You might be able to set something up using a Windows Azure Drive. Anyway, did you have SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 in your worker role as well?

Regards,
George

Created Issue: Doesn't run on Compute [6792]

ben555 — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:27:12 GMT

Updated Wiki: Home

ghuey — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:27:28 GMT

SQL Azure MWが、国際対応できたことを発表できて光栄に思う。最初の翻訳言語は、日本語です！
SQL Azure MW unterstützt nun die deutsche Sprache.
SQL Azure MW ondersteunt nu de taal Nederlands.
SQL Azure MW ahora soporta el idioma español.
SQL Azure MW supporte maintenant la langue française
SQL Azure MW 现在支持中文了。

Requirements
SQLAzureMW and tools requires SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 bits to run.
SQLAzureMW also requires BCP version 10.50.1600.1 or greater

Project Description
SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) is designed to help you migrate your SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 databases to SQL Azure. SQLAzureMW will analyze your source database for compatibility issues and allow you to fully or partially migrate your database schema and data to SQL Azure.

SQL Azure Migration Wizard (SQLAzureMW) is an open source application that has been used by thousands of people to migrate their SQL database to and from SQL Azure. SQLAzureMW is a user interactive wizard that walks a person through the analysis / migration process. One of the main requests from the SQLAzureMW community was to take the user interactive wizard and make it command line driven interface so that it could be used in an automated backup process to back up their SQL Azure schema / data to a data store for disaster recovery. I am excited to let you know that SQLAzureMW now has two tools that can be used from a command line:

SQLAzureMWBatchBackup:
- This is used to create a backup of a database schema and data. The data is downloaded via BCP. The TSQL output from SQLAzureMWBatchBackup can be used by SQLAzureMW or SQLAzureMWBatchUpload.
SQLAzureMWBatchUpload:
- Takes the output from SQLAzureMW or SQLAzureMWBatchBackup and runs it against the target SQL Azure (or SQL Server) server.

SQL Server to SQL Azure
SQL Azure to SQL Server
SQL Azure to SQL Azure

It will also analyze SQL Profiler trace files and TSQL script for compatibility issues with SQL Azure.

If your source is a SQL Server database, SQLAzureMW will list all of the object types (i.e. Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, etc.) and let you decide which ones you want analyzed / scripted. Using the “Advanced” options you can tell SQLAzureMW which compatibility checks to perform and if the data should be migrated.
If your source is a file containing TSQL, then you will be given the option to have SQLAzureMW check the TSQL for incompatibilities and fix where possible or just run the script without any compatibility checking.
You can specify a SQL Profiler trace file for analysis.

We welcome your feedback! Please let us know if you like this tool or how we can improve it!

Created Issue: Does not run on Windows 8 [6784]

timheuer — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:20:23 GMT

The migration wizard does not run on Windows 8, even in compatibility mode.

Created Issue: Will not run on Windows 8 [6783]

timheuer — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:17:24 GMT

After downloading this, the migration wizard will not run on Windows 8 client.

Updated Release: SQL Azure Migration Wizard v3.8.4 (Feb 15, 2012)

ghuey — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:11:49 GMT

Requirements
SQL Azure Migration Wizard v3x requires SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 bits to be on the same machine.

Issues
If you have a question / issue with SQLAzureMW, please post your question via the discussion http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/discussions page.

Binaries
.NET 3.5 SP1
Only tested (so far) on Windows 7 RTM (should work fine on XP or Vista)

Language Translations (Special Thanks)

大和屋貴仁 (Takahito Yamatoya) - Japanese
安納順一 (Junichi Anno) - Japanese
Oliver Hauth - German
Sam Vanhoutte - Dutch
Luis Antonio Soler Barrera – Spanish
Axel Guerrier – French
梁琦 (Mog Liang) – Chinese

Source
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
.NET 3.5 SP1
Only tested (so far) on Windows 7 RTM (should work fine on XP or Vista)
Please let us know if you encounter any problems or difficulties

v3.8.4

No code change. Just modified NotSupportedByAzureFile.Config to remove check for SPARSE columns since SQL Azure now supports SPARSE columns.

v3.8.3

Added Retry class
Modified app.config files to include new retry key values
Fixed bug when migrating SQL Azure Federation to SQL Azure Federation
Put retry wrapper around SQLHelper commands

v3.8.2

Fixed logic in SQLAzureMWBatchUpload to add { true | false } to -d (drop database) command
Moved Regex valid SQL table character match string to app.config file. See key: SpecialTableCharacters

v3.8.1

Added check for 08S01 in app.confg
Fix bug in SQLAzureMWBatchBackup to enable scripting of user defined functions.

v3.8

Added support for database collation
Added 100 & 150 GB options for creating a database in SQL Azure

v3.7.8

Fixed code to look for special character #
Added support for SQL Azure Federations
Modified SQLAzureMW.exe.config to allow user to specify source and target database type
Modified connect to database dialog box to allos database type
Getting software ready for next release of SQL Azure

v3.7.7

Fixed command parsing error which caused app to crash when parsing a TSQL file.
Added retry logic when getting row count from Windows Azure

v3.7.6

Removed "IsSystemObject" from User Defined Tables Types (works with SQL Server, but does not work with SQL Azure).

v3.7.5

Added function GetSmoServer to CommonFunc class in SQLAzureMWUtils
Refined Regex search command for Backup / Kill commands
Refined Regex search command for Raiserror commands
I installed SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 which is what SQLAzureMW v3.7.5 is compiled against. So if you don't have SP1 installed and you run into issues running SQLAzureMW, please let me know!

Released: SQL Azure Migration Wizard v3.8.4 (Feb 15, 2012)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:11:48 GMT

大和屋貴仁 (Takahito Yamatoya) - Japanese
安納順一 (Junichi Anno) - Japanese
Oliver Hauth - German
Sam Vanhoutte - Dutch
Luis Antonio Soler Barrera – Spanish
Axel Guerrier – French
梁琦 (Mog Liang) – Chinese

Source
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
.NET 3.5 SP1
Only tested (so far) on Windows 7 RTM (should work fine on XP or Vista)
Please let us know if you encounter any problems or difficulties

v3.8.4

No code change. Just modified NotSupportedByAzureFile.Config to remove check for SPARSE columns since SQL Azure now supports SPARSE columns.

v3.8.3

Added Retry class
Modified app.config files to include new retry key values
Fixed bug when migrating SQL Azure Federation to SQL Azure Federation
Put retry wrapper around SQLHelper commands

v3.8.2

Fixed logic in SQLAzureMWBatchUpload to add { true | false } to -d (drop database) command
Moved Regex valid SQL table character match string to app.config file. See key: SpecialTableCharacters

v3.8.1

Added check for 08S01 in app.confg
Fix bug in SQLAzureMWBatchBackup to enable scripting of user defined functions.

v3.8

Added support for database collation
Added 100 & 150 GB options for creating a database in SQL Azure

v3.7.8

Fixed code to look for special character #
Added support for SQL Azure Federations
Modified SQLAzureMW.exe.config to allow user to specify source and target database type
Modified connect to database dialog box to allos database type
Getting software ready for next release of SQL Azure

v3.7.7

Fixed command parsing error which caused app to crash when parsing a TSQL file.
Added retry logic when getting row count from Windows Azure

v3.7.6

Removed "IsSystemObject" from User Defined Tables Types (works with SQL Server, but does not work with SQL Azure).

v3.7.5

Added function GetSmoServer to CommonFunc class in SQLAzureMWUtils
Refined Regex search command for Backup / Kill commands
Refined Regex search command for Raiserror commands
I installed SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 which is what SQLAzureMW v3.7.5 is compiled against. So if you don't have SP1 installed and you run into issues running SQLAzureMW, please let me know!

Updated Wiki: Home

ghuey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:37:01 GMT

SQL Azure
Microsoft® SQL Azure™ is a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server® technologies. It provides a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant database service hosted by Microsoft in the cloud. To sign up for SQL Azure, go to SQL Azure Special Offers and Pricing Information.

Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure

SQL Azure Federation
SQL Azure Federations allows DBAs to scale out their database by federating (sharding) their database. SQL Azure Federation makes it easier to set up the federated databases, and automate the process of adding new federation members.

For more information on SQL Azure Federations see Federations: Building Scalable, Elastic, and Multi-tenant Database Solutions with SQL Azure.

For a limited time, new customers can sign up for SQL Azure and get a 1GB Web Edition Database for no charge…and no commitment. This is a great way to try SQL Azure – and the Windows Azure platform – without the risk. For more information go to Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special

Windows Azure
Microsoft is offering a Windows Azure 3 month free trial, so you can try Windows Azure and SQL Azure for free.
For more information go to Try Windows Azure 3 Month free trial.

SQLAzureMW Supported Languages

SQL Azure MWが、国際対応できたことを発表できて光栄に思う。最初の翻訳言語は、日本語です！
SQL Azure MW unterstützt nun die deutsche Sprache.
SQL Azure MW ondersteunt nu de taal Nederlands.
SQL Azure MW ahora soporta el idioma español.
SQL Azure MW supporte maintenant la langue française
SQL Azure MW 现在支持中文了。

SQLAzureMWBatchBackup:
- This is used to create a backup of a database schema and data. The data is downloaded via BCP. The TSQL output from SQLAzureMWBatchBackup can be used by SQLAzureMW or SQLAzureMWBatchUpload.
SQLAzureMWBatchUpload:
- Takes the output from SQLAzureMW or SQLAzureMWBatchBackup and runs it against the target SQL Azure (or SQL Server) server.

SQL Server to SQL Azure
SQL Azure to SQL Server
SQL Azure to SQL Azure

It will also analyze SQL Profiler trace files and TSQL script for compatibility issues with SQL Azure.

If your source is a SQL Server database, SQLAzureMW will list all of the object types (i.e. Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, etc.) and let you decide which ones you want analyzed / scripted. Using the “Advanced” options you can tell SQLAzureMW which compatibility checks to perform and if the data should be migrated.
If your source is a file containing TSQL, then you will be given the option to have SQLAzureMW check the TSQL for incompatibilities and fix where possible or just run the script without any compatibility checking.
You can specify a SQL Profiler trace file for analysis.

We welcome your feedback! Please let us know if you like this tool or how we can improve it!

Updated Wiki: Home

ghuey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:31:30 GMT

SQL Azure
Microsoft® SQL Azure™ is a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server® technologies. It provides a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant database service hosted by Microsoft in the cloud. To sign up for SQL Azure, go to SQL Azure Special Offers and Pricing Information.

SQL Azure Federation
SQL Azure Federations allows DBAs to scale out their database by federating (sharding) their database. SQL Azure Federation makes it easier to set up the federated databases, and automate the process of adding new federation members.

For more information on SQL Azure Federations see Federations: Building Scalable, Elastic, and Multi-tenant Database Solutions with SQL Azure.

For a limited time, new customers can sign up for SQL Azure and get a 1GB Web Edition Database for no charge…and no commitment. This is a great way to try SQL Azure – and the Windows Azure platform – without the risk. For more information go to Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special

Windows Azure
Microsoft is offering a Windows Azure 3 month free trial, so you can try Windows Azure and SQL Azure for free.
For more information go to Try Windows Azure 3 Month free trial.

SQLAzureMW Supported Languages

SQL Azure MWが、国際対応できたことを発表できて光栄に思う。最初の翻訳言語は、日本語です！
SQL Azure MW unterstützt nun die deutsche Sprache.
SQL Azure MW ondersteunt nu de taal Nederlands.
SQL Azure MW ahora soporta el idioma español.
SQL Azure MW supporte maintenant la langue française
SQL Azure MW 现在支持中文了。

SQLAzureMWBatchBackup:
- This is used to create a backup of a database schema and data. The data is downloaded via BCP. The TSQL output from SQLAzureMWBatchBackup can be used by SQLAzureMW or SQLAzureMWBatchUpload.
SQLAzureMWBatchUpload:
- Takes the output from SQLAzureMW or SQLAzureMWBatchBackup and runs it against the target SQL Azure (or SQL Server) server.

SQL Server to SQL Azure
SQL Azure to SQL Server
SQL Azure to SQL Azure

It will also analyze SQL Profiler trace files and TSQL script for compatibility issues with SQL Azure.

If your source is a SQL Server database, SQLAzureMW will list all of the object types (i.e. Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, etc.) and let you decide which ones you want analyzed / scripted. Using the “Advanced” options you can tell SQLAzureMW which compatibility checks to perform and if the data should be migrated.
If your source is a file containing TSQL, then you will be given the option to have SQLAzureMW check the TSQL for incompatibilities and fix where possible or just run the script without any compatibility checking.
You can specify a SQL Profiler trace file for analysis.

We welcome your feedback! Please let us know if you like this tool or how we can improve it!

Updated Release: SQL Azure Migration Wizard v3.8.3 (Feb 11, 2012)

ghuey — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:27:56 GMT

大和屋貴仁 (Takahito Yamatoya) - Japanese
安納順一 (Junichi Anno) - Japanese
Oliver Hauth - German
Sam Vanhoutte - Dutch
Luis Antonio Soler Barrera – Spanish
Axel Guerrier – French
梁琦 (Mog Liang) – Chinese

Source
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
.NET 3.5 SP1
Only tested (so far) on Windows 7 RTM (should work fine on XP or Vista)
Please let us know if you encounter any problems or difficulties

v3.8.3

Added Retry class
Modified app.config files to include new retry key values
Fixed bug when migrating SQL Azure Federation to SQL Azure Federation
Put retry wrapper around SQLHelper commands

v3.8.2

Fixed logic in SQLAzureMWBatchUpload to add { true | false } to -d (drop database) command
Moved Regex valid SQL table character match string to app.config file. See key: SpecialTableCharacters

v3.8.1

Added check for 08S01 in app.confg
Fix bug in SQLAzureMWBatchBackup to enable scripting of user defined functions.

v3.8

Added support for database collation
Added 100 & 150 GB options for creating a database in SQL Azure

v3.7.8

Fixed code to look for special character #
Added support for SQL Azure Federations
Modified SQLAzureMW.exe.config to allow user to specify source and target database type
Modified connect to database dialog box to allos database type
Getting software ready for next release of SQL Azure

v3.7.7

Fixed command parsing error which caused app to crash when parsing a TSQL file.
Added retry logic when getting row count from Windows Azure

v3.7.6

Removed "IsSystemObject" from User Defined Tables Types (works with SQL Server, but does not work with SQL Azure).

v3.7.5

Added function GetSmoServer to CommonFunc class in SQLAzureMWUtils
Refined Regex search command for Backup / Kill commands
Refined Regex search command for Raiserror commands
I installed SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 which is what SQLAzureMW v3.7.5 is compiled against. So if you don't have SP1 installed and you run into issues running SQLAzureMW, please let me know!

Released: SQL Azure Migration Wizard v3.8.3 (Feb 11, 2012)

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:27:56 GMT

大和屋貴仁 (Takahito Yamatoya) - Japanese
安納順一 (Junichi Anno) - Japanese
Oliver Hauth - German
Sam Vanhoutte - Dutch
Luis Antonio Soler Barrera – Spanish
Axel Guerrier – French
梁琦 (Mog Liang) – Chinese

Source
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
.NET 3.5 SP1
Only tested (so far) on Windows 7 RTM (should work fine on XP or Vista)
Please let us know if you encounter any problems or difficulties

v3.8.3

Added Retry class
Modified app.config files to include new retry key values
Fixed bug when migrating SQL Azure Federation to SQL Azure Federation
Put retry wrapper around SQLHelper commands

v3.8.2

Fixed logic in SQLAzureMWBatchUpload to add { true | false } to -d (drop database) command
Moved Regex valid SQL table character match string to app.config file. See key: SpecialTableCharacters

v3.8.1

Added check for 08S01 in app.confg
Fix bug in SQLAzureMWBatchBackup to enable scripting of user defined functions.

v3.8

Added support for database collation
Added 100 & 150 GB options for creating a database in SQL Azure

v3.7.8

Fixed code to look for special character #
Added support for SQL Azure Federations
Modified SQLAzureMW.exe.config to allow user to specify source and target database type
Modified connect to database dialog box to allos database type
Getting software ready for next release of SQL Azure

v3.7.7

Fixed command parsing error which caused app to crash when parsing a TSQL file.
Added retry logic when getting row count from Windows Azure

v3.7.6

Removed "IsSystemObject" from User Defined Tables Types (works with SQL Server, but does not work with SQL Azure).

v3.7.5

Added function GetSmoServer to CommonFunc class in SQLAzureMWUtils
Refined Regex search command for Backup / Kill commands
Refined Regex search command for Raiserror commands
I installed SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 which is what SQLAzureMW v3.7.5 is compiled against. So if you don't have SP1 installed and you run into issues running SQLAzureMW, please let me know!

Source code checked in, #67725

ghuey — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:03:24 GMT

Added Retry class, modified app.config files to include new retry key values, fixed bug when migrating SQL Azure Federation to SQL Azure Federation, put retry wrapper around SQLHelper commands

Source code checked in, #67616

ghuey — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:04:52 GMT

Fixed code to call IsTargetServerFederation()

New Post: Error: Index was outside the bounds of the array

kokujin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:09:29 GMT

Hello

This does not work for me. I've had my DB Admins update our test database to SP1, and I still get the error. I've tried only one table schema and it fails, any more ideas?

[edit] Reading the solutions more carefully, I think I need to update Management Studio as well... going to do that now and report back.

[edit2]Yep, I had to update my own installation of SQL Server (which in turn updates SSMS). All working now!

Patch Uploaded: #11370

richardastbury — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:12:22 GMT

richardastbury has uploaded a patch.

Description:
If the password contains an equals character, it must be escaped with an preceding equals character. (i.e. = -> ==).

New Post: SQLAzureMWBatchUpload Parameter DropOldDatabaseIfExists

chriseull — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:27:33 GMT

Hello George,
The missing SpecialTableCharacters key was the issue. I was reusing my config file from before.

Thank you for looking into this.
Chris