Migrations

Guidance for migrations from legacy data platforms to Azure Databricks. Start with the general migration guide. Then, use a source guide for its platform, language, and tool differences.

These pages use the platform architecture and operations guidance from this knowledge base.

Migration guides#

• Databricks migration guide — six migration phases, strategy choices, validation, rollback, and the technical sequence.
• SQL Server to Databricks — T-SQL conversion, data type mapping, and migration from SSIS or SQL Server Agent to Lakeflow.
• Azure Synapse to Databricks — dedicated SQL pools, Synapse pipelines, serverless SQL, and Spark workloads.