40517: Microsoft Cloud Workshop: Migrate EDW to Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in assessing and migrating an enterprise data warehouse to Azure Synapse SQL through architecture, data movement, security, validation, performance, and cutover planning. The learning path progresses from planning and essential concepts to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, instructor-led demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Each topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals build dependable skills, explain their decisions, identify failure points, and create an actionable improvement plan that can be applied to future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Inventory sources, schemas, workloads, dependencies, security, service levels, and constraints
• Design Azure storage, dedicated SQL pools, networking, identity, capacity, and migration waves
• Map data types, tables, distributions, partitions, indexes, code, and unsupported features
• Plan bulk loading, staging, pipelines, incremental synchronization, restartability, and control totals
• Reconcile counts, balances, dimensions, history, queries, reports, and business rules
• Tune distributions, statistics, resource classes, concurrency, storage, and workload management
• Plan freeze, final sync, rollback, communication, acceptance, ownership, and support
• Monitor cost, performance, availability, backups, security, and post-migration improvements

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.