Capabilities for Azure SQL Managed Instance

This section lists the of HVR when using 'Azure SQL Managed Instance'. For more information about the pre-requisites, access privileges, and other configuration requirements, see Requirements for Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Capture

HVR supports the following capabilities on Azure SQL Managed Instance:

• changes from location.
• Log-based capture (capture from DBMS logging system).
• Log-based capture of tables without a primary key.
• Access to logs using SQL interface.
• Log-based capture of tables with LOB column.
• Online refresh using accurate LSN/SCN.
• Populates column hvr_cap_user for use in {hvr_cap_user} substitutions.
• Multiple log-based capture jobs can capture from same database.
• Capture from tables with basic compression.
• Capture from tables with advanced compression.

HVR does not support the following capabilities on Azure SQL Managed Instance:

• Capture from Archive log files only.
• Direct access to logs on a file system.
• Log-based capture from hidden rowid/RRN column ( /CaptureFromRowId).
• Rewind log-based capture to specific time ( option -i).
• Log-based capture of truncate table statements.
• Log-based capture checkpointing (action /CheckpointingFrequency).
• to preserve journal/archives.
• Read archives from an alternative directory ( /ArchiveLogPath).
• Trigger-based capture (action /TriggerBased).

Hub Database

HVR supports Hub database on Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Integrate

HVR supports the following capabilities on Azure SQL Managed Instance:

• changes into location.
• with /Burst.
• with /BurstCommitFrequency.
• Continuous integration ( without /Burst).
• Action with /DuplicateRows for continuous integration.
• Continuous with /OnErrorSaveFailed (without /Burst).
• Disable/enable database triggers during (/NoTriggerFiring).
• Action /SoftDelete.
• Creation and update of HVR state tables.
• with /DbProc.

Bi-directional Replication

HVR supports the following capabilities on Azure SQL Managed Instance:

• Detection of changes made by HVR in a bidirectional channel to prevent loop-back.
• with /TimestampColumn.

HVR does not support the following capabilities on Azure SQL Managed Instance:

• with Log-based Capture (without /TimestampColumn).

Refresh and Compare

HVR supports the following capabilities on Azure SQL Managed Instance:

• or from source location.
• into target location.
• Row-wise into target location (option -g).
• Disable/enable foreign keys from table to others during (option -F).
• Disable/enable triggers during (option -f).
• Identity columns.
• Select data from each table from same consistent moment in time using a single transaction (and session) with 'serializable' SQL isolation level ( option -Mserializable).
• Select data from each table from same consistent moment in time using a single transaction (and session) with 'snapshot' SQL isolation level ( option -Msnapshot).

Other Capabilities

HVR supports the following capabilities on Azure SQL Managed Instance:

• Use distribution key for parallelizing changes within a table ( /DistributionKey).
• Call database procedure dbproc during replication jobs (action /DbProc).
• with /IncludeSQLFile.
• International table and column names where DBMS is not configured with UTF-8 encoding.
• Treat DBMS table names and columns as case sensitive if configured (action /CaseSensitiveNames defined) .
• Always treat DBMS table names and column names as case sensitive, even if not configured (action /CaseSensitiveNames not defined) .
• Always treat DBMS schema names case sensitive.

HVR does not support the following capabilities on Azure SQL Managed Instance:

• Distinguish and support capture from 'materialized views'.