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 ...

The one thing that still fills me with dread is the idea of migrating from one database to another. Now I am not talking about updating from SQL 2005 to 2008 or from Oracle 10g to 11g, these do a ...

Microsoft will unveil its latest arsenal in the cloud wars on Monday as it opens Ignite, one of the company's largest customer conferences. Microsoft is using the Orlando event to officially and ...

the toolkit offers a command-line tool to migrate tables and data from an enterprise database management system, such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, to PostgreSQL. Another reason behind ...

The tool allows users to migrate the following third-party databases to Oracle: Microsoft SQL Server (versions 7, 2000 and 2005) Microsoft Access (versions 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003) MySQL (versions 3.0 ...

The companies are establishing a joint lab in Walldorf, Germany, to generate, test and publish migration best practices for customers migrating off alternative databases to SQL Server and to ...

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 ...

An increasing number of enterprises want to move their in-house Oracle databases to the cloud. However, this is a complex migration that ... there is frequent large capital expense, there is ...

I have a 2008R2 server ... One of the databases is large enough that a full backup would take substantial time, so I would like to avoid doing it at the time scheduled for the migration.