I'm currently thinking of migrating my MS Access (connected to a SQL Server 2008 database) applications to SharePoint 2010 in order to have the freedom to access/edit the data anywhere.
My question is.. How big a task is it to move the data from my SQL Server database to the SharePoint server?
Has anyone done this before? I'm still researching SharePoint therefore any advice would be greatly appreciated.
It depends how complex are your forms in Access and the complexity of the manipulation you want to do with your data. If it is a simple data model then you can go easily with the BCS in SharePoint. Further to customize the forms you can use Infopath designer if you are not much familiar with ASP.Net.
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We have a requirement to migrate only data from SQL Server to SharePoint 2013.I wish to analyze the SQL server database details prior proceeding to migrate to SharePoint.So, can anyone guide me on what factors or what kind of information I need to gather from SQL serer to take those into consideration prior deciding to migrate to SP?
Please guide me on this.
Thanks in advance.
Could you please clear about what you meant by SQL server to SharePoint migration :-) - by the design, SharePoint maintains its back end data in SQL server - and the database name called as content database. So are you trying to migrate these content databases to some other SharePoint version or farm? If you are looking for this, please go thru the below article for basic tips and tricks in SharePoint migration project.
https://global-sharepoint.com/2019/10/13/basic-tips-and-tricks-in-sharepoint-migration-project/
Sorry about the newb question I'm new to Azure.
I've created a new (free) 20mb database in the azure portal which is fine. I'm trying to upload my website database using the 'Export to Azure' sql management studio function. However, instead syncing the DB over to the one I created in the portal it creates a new database. The new DB seems to support a minimum size of 100mb which is way to big for my requirements.
I would be grateful for any advise regarding the best way to proceed. I'm migrating the website in question to Azure, the database is quite small and basically I just need to copy it over and connect to it.
Thanks in advance.
William
You can use this tool to migrate data Microsoft data migrate assistant
You can download from here. it's very easy to use
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53595
there are some migrate mode you can use: ex from Sql to azure Sql like picture bellow
When migrate you can choose migrate schema and data and data only
There is a great tool in Visual Studio Community Edition (free) for comparing both schema and data between two databases on different servers. It can then update the target database with any changes after which you can switch over to use the Azure DB.
We can use Excel to connect to a TFS server and then select a work item query. Based on the query a list of work Items shows up in excel. The data can be edited and published (saved) back to server.
I would like to know the architecture / technology that TFS excel add-in uses to save the data back to TFS.
Main question is does excel access data using which one of the following:
a web service that TFS exposes
the code in add-in using some TFS client side object model or
is it using some SQL server or SharePoint out of the box functionality to do it.
I’m pretty sure Excel is using TFS SDK libraries that are using TFS Web service in the background to achieve this.
I can tell you for sure that it’s not directly connecting to TFS database – that simply wouldn’t work every time remote connections on TFS database server are disabled. It would also require you to enter user/password for SQL Server instance it needs to connect to.
Here are couple links to get you started in the right direction.
Extending Team Foundation
Connect to Team Foundation Server from a Console Application – I’m not 100% sure but I guess excel is using something similar to this…
Hope these links helps you to understand more.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb649552.aspx#self_service_excel
Olap data cube http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb649557.aspx
I'm looking for any advice on the best way to migrate a SharePoint 2007 installation and a database. The current setup is a server running SharePoint 2007 with the database stored on a separate SQL Server installation. Due to performance issues we are planning to move the SharePoint application to another server and also move the database onto the same physical server and run it using SQL Server 2005 Express.
Has anyone done this type of migration before and could they recommend the best way to carry this out or if it is even possible. Migrating the SharePoint installation from one physical server to another seems fairly straight forward using stsadm.exe. Can anyone advise the best way to move the database from an SQL Server to SQL Server Express so that the SharePoint installation will be able to see it?
I highly suggest using Tzunami's tools and products for SharePoint migration. Their site provides various demo videos and other information regarding content migration. They give user-friendly instructions, making the process quick and easy!
Their products are listed on the site- check them out at http://www.tzunami.com/products/Product-Overview.
Hope this helps!
I have a Microsoft Access 2007 database (.accdb) used in a CRM, and I'd very much like to create an unmanaged model in django to access the data (read-only) for a quick and dirty web application.
What are my options here? I looked at django-pyodbc, but they unfortunately only support ms sql connections at this time. That made me wonder, perhaps there is a way to mirror a Microsoft Access database to a MS SQL server through ODBC, and then connect to that through the django-mssql or django-pyodbc application?
Another option is to convert the access database to some intermediary database file which could then be accessed through django. The downfall to this approach is that I'd need to ensure that I regularly syncronize this intermediary database with the access database, so the intermediary db is up to date.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can connect to my Access 2007 CRM data through django?
Access files really don't like more than one person touching them. You've outgrown them. Get a proper multi-user networked database and migrate to that. Microsoft will sell you SQL Server for the price of a small yacht or give you SQL Express for free in the hope that soon you'll need to upgrade.
Or use PostgreSQL via ODBC for free for ever. But don't try and use a file as a database without going through a server first.