One platform, one bill. Data Factory, warehousing, and Power BI share one Fabric capacity instead of separate SQL Server, SSIS server, and reporting licenses.
Rising SQL Server licensing costs, an SSIS pipeline nobody wants to touch, and a BI stack spread across three separate tools are not problems a patch fixes. Hexaview Technologies plans and runs your SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric migration from assessment through cutover, so your team spends less time keeping servers alive and more time building on top of the data.
Hexaview's SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric Migration Services move your databases, SSIS pipelines, SSAS models, and SSRS reports into one governed platform built on OneLake. We handle the assessment, conversion, validation, and cutover, so reporting stays continuous while your licensing and maintenance costs come down.
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Every extra quarter on SQL Server is a quarter of license renewals, patch cycles, and SSIS maintenance a modern platform would not ask for. Gartner's own research puts technical debt concerns across close to 40 percent of enterprise infrastructure systems, aging platforms like SQL Server included, and that share climbs every year a SQL Server migration to Fabric gets pushed back. Microsoft has also drawn a hard line on how long that debt stays optional: SQL Server 2016 reached the end of extended support on July 14, 2026, which means no further security patches for any organization still running it in production.
The short version: SQL Server runs as a set of separate engines you patch and license one at a time. Fabric runs as one governed platform where storage, compute, and BI share the same copy of your data, which is the whole point of a SQL Server to Fabric migration in the first place.
A Hexaview SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric Migration Services engagement is rarely one clean move. It is five overlapping workstreams, SQL Server to Fabric Data Warehouse conversion, SSIS to Microsoft Fabric migration, SSAS to Microsoft Fabric migration, SSRS to Microsoft Fabric migration, and the bulk data movement that ties them together, and Hexaview scopes every one of them before writing the migration plan.
We move relational tables, stored procedures, and T-SQL logic into a Fabric Data Warehouse or Lakehouse, with schema conversion and row-level validation completed before anything touches production.
SSIS packages get converted into Fabric Data Factory pipelines and Dataflow Gen2, preserving transformation logic and job schedules instead of rebuilding ETL from a blank canvas.
Tabular and multidimensional SSAS models get rebuilt as Fabric-native semantic models, so existing Power BI reports reconnect through Direct Lake without a rewrite.
SSRS report definitions move into Power BI paginated reports, keeping the pixel-precise layouts finance and compliance teams depend on.
Bulk data movement and validation cover every table in scope, run in parallel with your live SQL Server environment until row counts and checksums match exactly.
An SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric migration is a budget decision as much as a technical one. The advantage is not a single feature. It is what happens once your DBAs, BI developers, and analysts stop maintaining four disconnected tools.
One platform, one bill. Data Factory, warehousing, and Power BI share one Fabric capacity instead of separate SQL Server, SSIS server, and reporting licenses.
Capacity pricing instead of per-core licensing. You scale compute up and down with Fabric's capacity model rather than provisioning hardware for peak load year round.
Near real-time data without a rebuild. Mirroring for SQL Server, now generally available, replicates on-premises and Azure SQL Server data into OneLake through change data capture.
AI built into the license. Fabric ships Copilot and Direct Lake performance as part of the platform, not a separate integration project.
Independently measured return. Forrester's Total Economic Impact study found measurable gains in data engineering and analyst productivity after Fabric adoption.
Every SQL Server to Fabric migration follows the same five checkpoints, whether the project covers one database or a full estate of SSIS packages, SSAS models, and SSRS reports.
Inventory every database, SSIS package, SSAS model, SSRS report, and dependency, then sequence the riskiest workloads first.
Convert schemas, stored procedures, and SSIS logic into Fabric-native objects, automated wherever the mapping is clean.
Move data in parallel with your live SQL Server instance, checking row counts and checksums until both environments agree.
Rebuild SSAS models as Fabric semantic models and move SSRS reports into Power BI, completing the SSAS to Microsoft Fabric migration and SSRS to Microsoft Fabric migration together.
Cut over on your schedule, then spend the following weeks tuning capacity and cost.
Every SQL Server migration to Fabric can be done by hand. Whether it should be is a different question, and it is usually the first thing a serious SQL to Microsoft Fabric migration plan settles before scoping anything else.
Any team running production workloads on SQL Server benefits from Hexaview's SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric Migration Services, but the case is strongest where compliance and reporting speed carry real weight.
Real-time risk and portfolio reporting without a nightly SSIS batch window.
HIPAA-aligned pipelines carried into Fabric without rebuilding access controls from scratch.
Claims and underwriting dashboards that meet audit timelines instead of missing them.
Inventory and campaign data unified in OneLake instead of scattered SSIS jobs.
Predictive maintenance pipelines migrated without touching plant-floor uptime.
Usage and billing pipelines that scale past what per-core licensing allowed.
Numbers from published research back the direction. Numbers from our own delivery work back the approach.
These are the questions enterprise buyers ask before committing. If yours isn't here, ask us directly.
Most engagements run six to twelve weeks depending on how many databases, SSIS packages, and SSAS models are in scope. A single database migration moves faster; a full estate with SSRS and SSAS included usually runs longer.
It covers schema and stored procedure conversion, SSIS to Microsoft Fabric migration for your ETL logic, SSAS and SSRS conversion where those exist, and a validated data migration that runs alongside your live SQL Server environment before cutover.
SSIS itself does not run inside Fabric. Hexaview converts SSIS packages into Fabric Data Factory pipelines and Dataflow Gen2, so the same transformation logic and schedules continue under a Fabric-native format.
SSAS tabular and multidimensional models get rebuilt as Fabric semantic models. Existing Power BI reports connect to the rebuilt models through Direct Lake, usually with better query performance than the original SSAS connection.
Yes. SSRS report definitions convert into Power BI paginated reports, which preserve the fixed layouts and print formatting that SSRS was built for.
Not for the source system. Hexaview runs SQL Server and Fabric in parallel during validation, so production stays on SQL Server until the Fabric environment matches it exactly and cutover happens on a scheduled window.
Cost scales with how many databases, SSIS packages, and reporting objects are in scope, and whether the target is a Fabric Warehouse, a Lakehouse, or both. Hexaview starts with a scoped assessment that returns a fixed cost before conversion begins.
An Azure Data Factory migration mainly replatforms pipelines. A full SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric migration also converts the database, SSAS models, and SSRS reports, landing everything in OneLake instead of leaving the warehouse and BI layer behind.
Organizations paying for SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS as separate maintenance burdens see the fastest payback, especially in regulated industries where SOC 2 and HIPAA-aligned governance needs to carry over intact.
Talk to Hexaview about scoping your SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric migration. We start with a free assessment of what you are running today, map every SSIS package, SSAS model, and SSRS report to its Fabric target, and return a fixed migration cost before conversion work begins.
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