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This section describes how to configure your source SQL Server database for
Datastream to track and replicate changes to a selected destination.
Datastream can pull changes from self-managed or cloud-hosted SQL Server
databases.
Supported databases
Datastream works with the following types of SQL Server databases:
Self-managed SQL Server (on-premise or cloud-hosted)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Cloud SQL for SQL Server
Azure SQL Database tier S3 and later (only supported when using the change
tables CDC method)
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