Cross-Post: Migrating a 1TB database from Win to Linux with no downtime

For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story on migrating a huge database from Linux to Windows with no downtime. Check it out.

TL;DR: we spawned a Linux version of SQL Server and moved the database using "log-shipping". We've been planning this move for months and this Christmas weekend we finally did it. Read on