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:

• Capture changes from location.
• Trigger-based capture (action Capture /TriggerBased).

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.