Capabilities for Azure SQL Database
This section lists the Capabilities of HVR when using 'Azure SQL Database'. For more information about the pre-requisites, access privileges, and other configuration requirements, see Requirements for Azure SQL Database.
Capture
HVR supports the following capabilities on Azure SQL Database:
HVR does not support the following capabilities on Azure SQL Database:
- Log-based capture (capture from DBMS logging system).
Hub Database
HVR supports Hub database on Azure SQL Database.
Integrate
HVR supports the following capabilities on Azure SQL Database:
- Integrate changes into location.
- Integrate with /Burst.
- Integrate with /BurstCommitFrequency.
- Continuous integration (Integrate without /Burst).
- Action TableProperties with /DuplicateRows for continuous integration.
- Continuous Integrate with /OnErrorSaveFailed (without /Burst).
- Action Transform /SoftDelete.
- Creation and update of HVR state tables.
- Integrate with /DbProc.
HVR does not support the following capabilities on Azure SQL Database:
- Disable/enable database triggers during Integrate (/NoTriggerFiring).
Bi-directional Replication
HVR supports the following capabilities on Azure SQL Database:
- Detection of changes made by HVR in a bidirectional channel to prevent loop-back.
- CollisionDetect with Trigger-based Capture (with Capture /TriggerBased and without CollisionDetect /TimestampColumn).
- CollisionDetect with /TimestampColumn.
Refresh and Compare
HVR supports the following capabilities on Azure SQL Database:
- Hvrrefresh or Hvrcompare from source location.
- Hvrrefresh into target location.
- Row-wise Hvrrefresh into target location (option -g).
- Disable/enable foreign keys from table to others during Hvrrefresh (option -F).
- Disable/enable triggers during Hvrrefresh (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 (Hvrrefresh option -Mserializable).
- Select data from each table from same consistent moment in time using a single transaction (and session) with 'snapshot' SQL isolation level (Hvrrefresh option -Msnapshot).
Other Capabilities
HVR supports the following capabilities on Azure SQL Database:
- Use distribution key for parallelizing changes within a table (ColumnProperties /DistributionKey).
- Call database procedure dbproc during replication jobs (action AgentPlugin /DbProc).
- DbObjectGeneration 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 LocationProperties /CaseSensitiveNames defined) .
- Always treat DBMS table names and column names as case sensitive, even if not configured (action LocationProperties /CaseSensitiveNames not defined) .
- Always treat DBMS schema names case sensitive.