Manually back up your source database and then restore it to your SQL Server instance in your virtual machine using SQL Server Management Studio. You can back it up and restore it using one of these methods:
- Back up to a local file, copy backup to your virtual machine (or to blob storage), and then restore your backup file into your SQL Server instance in your virtual machine. We will walk through this method at the end of this chapter.
- Backup to URL and then restore from URL. This method is supported only for SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2 or newer.
Use the Deploy Database to a Microsoft Azure VM Wizard in SQL Server 2016 SQL Server Management Studio to back up your source database and then restore it to your SQL Server instance in your virtual machine. This method currently is not recommended because this wizard has not yet been updated to support Azure Resource Manager (ARM)–deployed virtual machines.
Use the Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor to back up your source database and then restore it to your SQL Server instance in your virtual machine. As mentioned previously, the SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Advisor currently is in preview, and a new version called Data Migration Assistant (DMA) will be released in late April or early May 2016. As this tool matures, it will become the preferred method. Until Data Migration Assistant is available, this method is not recommended.
You also could detach your data and log files, copy those files into your virtual machine, and then attach those files. However, this method has no advantage over the database backup and restore method.
Source of Information : Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure
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