If you are like me and love to keep up with the latest news in the Database, SQL and Cloud world, this is your place. Here is a short list of the blogs posts that got my attention during the past week. I hope you like them!

Auto Trader: Charting the road from Oracle to PostgreSQL: “We’re hearing today from Auto Trader, UK’s largest online automotive marketplace. Auto Trader aims to improve the process of buying and selling vehicles in the UK, providing a platform for consumers to connect with retailers and manufacturers. Here’s how Auto Trader used Google’s Cloud SQL on their database migration journey from on-premises into the cloud.”

Preparing PosgreSQL for migration Database Migration Service: “Last November, we made relational database migration easier for MySQL users with our public preview of Database Migration Service (DMS). Today, we’ve officially made the product generally available, and bring the same easy-to-use migration functionality to PostgreSQL. […] Today, I want to take a moment with you to cover preparing your source PostgreSQL instance and database(s) for migration using DMS and some gotchas I found so you don’t have to.”

How to Migrate Your On-Prem SQL Server DB to Azure Cloud: “The Azure SQL-managed instance lies between Infrastructure as a service and Platform as a service offering, providing database administrators the capability to manage parts of SQL Server’s infrastructure components. Let us go through the steps to migrating your existing database to an Azure SQL-managed instance.”

What Architects Need to Know About Networking on AWS: “As an architect, you may not have thought too much about the network management before. At least that’s how it used to be for me. But since I’ve been designing architectures for AWS, network structure has become much more important to me. […] In the following, you will learn about all the concepts of a VPC that are important from an architect’s perspective.”

Top 20 Microsoft Azure Architect Interview Questions and Answers: “There is a huge spear in preparing & getting certified in niche domains like Microsoft Azure & other cloud technologies as there are tremendous job opportunities across organizations & geographies. If you are one of them & looking for a career transition or building a fresh career in Microsoft Azure Technologies like Microsoft Azure Architect, here is you can go through the top 20 Interview Questions to help you prepare for an interview for the role as an Azure Architect.”

And this is it. I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I did. Have a nice weekend and keep yourself healthy!