--- title: If You Had to Go Back On-Prem… #tsql2sday | daily.dev description: A T-SQL Tuesday response exploring the real-world challenges of migrating back from cloud to on-premises infrastructure. Key gotchas include the current... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/if-you-had-to-go-back-on-prem-tsql2sday-qqsea14u6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: If You Had to Go Back On-Prem… #tsql2sday | daily.dev og:description: A T-SQL Tuesday response exploring the real-world challenges of migrating back from cloud to on-premises infrastructure. Key gotchas include the current... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/if-you-had-to-go-back-on-prem-tsql2sday-qqsea14u6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Qqsea14u6.png og:image:alt: If You Had to Go Back On-Prem… #tsql2sday og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # If You Had to Go Back On-Prem… #tsql2sday **[Brent Ozar](https://daily.dev/sources/brentozar)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A T-SQL Tuesday response exploring the real-world challenges of migrating back from cloud to on-premises infrastructure. Key gotchas include the current hardware shortage driven by AI demand, the lost skill of calm on-prem outage troubleshooting without a vendor to blame, and the risk of a single cloud-native dependency blocking the entire reverse migration. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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