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Three pieces at launch, growing by two or three a month. Every post links up to the one silo it belongs to.
cadencetwo or three posts a month
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SQL Server 2016 is out of support. Here are your four real options.
Support ended 14 July 2026, and the "migrate to Azure for free ESUs" pitch is wrong for this version. The corrected version, and the four options that are actually in front of you.
What an Azure landing zone actually is (and what it actually costs to stand one up)
The term buyers keep hearing, defined in plain language, with an honest range for the effort — not a made-up price.
Azure migration readiness for a 50-person finance firm: a worked scenario
A hypothetical firm, shaped like the ones we actually see, walked through the assessment step by step — never presented as a real client.
Start with the assessment, not the migration.
Book an assessment call30 minuteswith the engineer who would scope the work[PLACEHOLDER: written-summary turnaround, not yet committed]