topic Re: Migrate data from Sybase to MS Fabric in Data Engineering

Migrate data from Sybase to MS Fabric

pallavi_r — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:07:02 GMT

Dear All,

What is the ideal way to migrate data from Sybase to MS Fabric?

What are the different options and approaches?

* Please refrain from giving responses from chatgpt, copilot. 🙂

Thanks,

Pallavi

Re: Migrate date from Sybase to MS Fabric

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:17:52 GMT

Hi @pallavi_r ,
Thank you for using Microsoft Fabric Community Forum!

There is a sybase connector in dataflow which you can use to get data from your database to Fabric.Refer the link:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/sybase-database

If that does not match your requirement perfectly, Try using REST connector in Data pipleine to get data from your database into Fabric.
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/connector-rest-overview

Please follow this document to know how to configure copy activity in fabric using REST:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/connector-rest-copy-activity

Please follow this document to know how to set up a connection to use REST connector in data pipeline:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/connector-rest#set-up-your-connection-in-a-data-pipeline

Hope this helps.
Thank you.

Regards,
Pallavi.

Re: Migrate date from Sybase to MS Fabric

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:38:02 GMT

Hi @pallavi_r ,
I hope the suggested solution worked for you. If you found any workaround,please share it the community and accept your answer as solution.It will be helpful for others who are facing similar issue.If it is not resolved, please feel free to reach out!
Thank you.

Re: Migrate date from Sybase to MS Fabric

pallavi_r — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:38:29 GMT

Hi @Anonymous ,

Thanks for your quick reply. The solution provided is for data connection and extraction. Would be great if you can share some insight on end to end migration methodology.

Thanks,

Pallavi

Re: Migrate data from Sybase to MS Fabric

pallavi_r — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:30:45 GMT

Hi All,

Just taking this approach as per below references from Microsoft link.

Step 1 - Keep azure sql db as staging environment and use SSMA to do the schema and data migration.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssma/sybase/migrating-sybase-ase-databases-to-sql-server-azure-sql-db-sybasetosql?view=sql-server-ver17

Step 2 - Then migrate from Azure SQL DB to MS Fabric using copy job, mirroring, multiple options are there

https://support.fabric.microsoft.com/en-ca/blog/sql-to-microsoft-fabric-migration-beginner-friendly-strategies-for-a-smooth-transition?ft=All

Please share if you have any different suggestion to this.

Thanks,

Pallavi