If you still have SQL Server 2005 anywhere in your firm, you now have four months to get a migration program going before Microsoft pulls the plug on support for the aging database. April 12 will ...

Amid this landscape, the strategic migration and consolidation of SQL server farms to the cloud emerge as a terrific opportunity to realize business benefits. Modernizing an existing legacy ...

Microsoft’s offer: “Customers who migrate workloads to Azure virtual machines will have access to Extended Security Updates for both SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 for three ...

Due to my background working with other major database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, I’ve long been an advocate for the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). This powerful and easy ...

Flash forward to April 12, 2016. A business hasn’t migrated from Microsoft SQL Server 2005 – or the migration has failed – and extended support has ended. That business has lost access to critical ...

You must watch out for many subtle and not-so-subtle traps when translating Oracle queries to SQL Server. Just as T-SQL is the language engine of SQL Server, PLSQL is that of Oracle. Both these ...

There's also the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit for Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 migration (the latter reaches end of support on April 12, 2016).

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 ...

That’s the question posed by Microsoft as the company announced the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) 6.0 for Oracle. The free tool enables organizations to migrate existing ...