Jes Borland has a five-part series on replicating a series of databases in an Availability Group to Azure SQL Database. Part 1 involves planning:
There are tasks you’ll need to take care of in SQL Server, the AG, and the SQL DB before you can begin.
This blog series assumes you already have an AG set up – it won’t go through the setup of that. It also assumes you have an Azure SQL server and a SQL Database created – it won’t go through that setup either.
Ideally, the publishers, distributor, and subscribers will all be the same version and edition of SQL Server. If not, you have to configure from the highest-version server, or you will get errors.
Part 2 prepares the replication distributor:
The first step in this process is to set up the remote distributor. As I mentioned in the first blog, you do not want your distribution database on one of the AG replicas. You need to set this up on a server that is not part of the AG.
Start by logging on to the distributor server – in this demo, SQL2014demo.
Stay tuned for the remainder of the series.