sqlmigration-review

sqlmigration-review is a skill for Claude Code from vanterx/mssql-performance-skills. It costs 140 tokens per session (4,328 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of a planned or ongoing move between SQL Server environments, checking whether versions, editions, platforms, objects, and the cutover design are compatible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess SQL Server migrations to another version, edition, Windows setup, or Azure SQL environment, including backup and Always On plans.
Why use it?
It exposes migration risks such as unsupported features, version downgrades, authentication gaps, incomplete backups, and topology changes before they cause an outage.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the mssql-performance-skills plugin — 26 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vanterx/mssql-performance-skills/sqlmigration-review
Any agent
npx skills add vanterx/mssql-performance-skills --skill sqlmigration-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanterx/mssql-performance-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mssql-performance-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vanterx/mssql-performance-skills/sqlmigration-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vanterx/mssql-performance-skills/sqlmigration-review.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,328 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00140 $0.04328
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.02164
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00866
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00433

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0f2c4aac288b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sqlmigration-review scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/sqlmigration-review/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

sqlmigration-review

Purpose

Reviews a planned or in-progress SQL Server migration for version, edition, and platform compatibility risk, then dispatches to companion skills for the object families a migration touches. This skill owns 15 checks (Y1–Y15) covering exactly one slice of migration risk — does the target SQL Server version/edition/platform support what the source actually uses, and does the cutover plan account for the source's own topology — and routes everything else:

  • Version & Edition Compatibility (Y1–Y6) — edition-gated features, version downgrade risk, compatibility level ceiling, collation mismatch, discontinued features, In-Memory OLTP support
  • Platform Compatibility — Azure SQL (Y7–Y9) — instance-scoped object support, Windows Authentication migration path, SQL Server Agent availability
  • Migration Mechanism Readiness (Y10–Y13) — backup/restore chain integrity, recovery model, Always On AG edition limits for seeding
  • Lifecycle (Y14) — source version support-end urgency
  • Source Topology Transition (Y15) — Failover Cluster Instance client redirect planning

The dbatools.io Start-DbaMigration page is used only as a checklist of migration object types — every check and fix recipe in this skill family is built on native T-SQL system views, the in-box Microsoft SqlServer PowerShell module, and sqlcmd/bcp. No third-party PowerShell module is referenced or required.

For the security-object family (logins, permissions, credentials, certificates, CMS registrations), this skill dispatches to sqlmigration-security-review (15 checks, J1–J15). For the operational-object family (SQL Agent jobs, linked servers, Database Mail, backup devices, custom errors, server triggers, XE sessions, endpoints), it dispatches to sqlmigration-objects-review (16 checks, M1–M16). For overlap areas already covered by existing skills, it dispatches to those skills directly rather than duplicating checks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 226 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 0f2c4aac288b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sqlmigration-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository vanterx/mssql-performance-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 4,328 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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