Microsoft has announced the first CTP of a SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL v1.0, which automates aspects of the migration process to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 & 2008 including SQL ...

At the heart of the process is the same Data Migration Assistant that you’d use to move data from one SQL Server instance to another, analyzing your database and making performance improvements ...

Call it the duel of the database migration tools. "The free Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) makes it easy to migrate data from Oracle, Microsoft Access, MySQL and Sybase to SQL Server, ...

The Data Migration Assistant, which is supposed to help move workloads, is also being upgraded.

With that in mind, Microsoft is now offering a second version of its Data Migration Assistant (DMA), which supports migrations to SQL Server 2016 running on-premises or in an cloud-based virtual ...

Microsoft capped off a week of high-profile announcements related to SQL Server with an aggressive migration offer aimed at Oracle database customers. Here's the bottom line, from Microsoft's ...