Microsoft's SQL Server Migration Assistant lets you move your data and schema to different SQL Servers. Here's what you need to know about the tool. Image: Dilok/Adobe Stock The Microsoft SQL ...

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 SQL Server version migrations are one of the more difficult activities for a DBA to execute, yet they are a very common change to the infrastructure. Databases eventually have to be migrated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration ... which is an option for moving local SQL Server workloads to the Azure SQL Database service, which ...

On Jan. 11, Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL, which the company refers to as “a toolkit that dramatically ...

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 ...

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 ...