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Moving sql database [closed]

I need to move the sql database to a new server without changing the app that uses that database, how can i do this easily without affecting the users ?
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How to swap out a DB from MySQL to SQL Server in a multiple large projects?

Is there a sane way / best practices way to swap out a DB from MySQL to SQL Server in a multiple large projects? Some of the projects are ASP projects, some of them are windows services, some are ...
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Are there any special advantages of SQL Server with Visual Studio?

I have seen the forum dba.StackExchange, but this question involves Visual Studio as well, therefore I wanted to post this question here. One of my old application was built on VS-2008 and MySQL ...
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what is storing data in constant space?

"bloom filter allows us to store data in constant space" Can someone explain what exactly does that sentence means?
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what is the benefit of using key/value stores with respect to database sharding?

What has key/value stores got to do with making database sharding easier? Because if I do not use a key/value store, I can easily shard my database too right? (Like say, I can easily say users with ...
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Foreign key restrictions -> yes or no?

I would like to hear some”real life experience” suggestions if foreign key restrictions are good or bad thing to enforce in DB. I would kindly ask students/beginners to refrain from jumping and ...