Oracle is going after users of Microsoft’s SQL Server with a new tool for migrating data from SQL Server to its own MySQL database, the vendor announced Wednesday.

A free toolkit helps database users migrate from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server database on-premise or in the cloud.

And we did that with SQL,” Austin said. ” We feel confident we can scale beyond 100 million users no problem.” Another big user of MySQL is Twitter.

Hackers target poorly secured Microsoft SQL and MySQL database servers to deploy the Gh0stCringe remote access trojans on vulnerable devices.

Oracle isn't going to give up on its acquisition of MySQL because MySQL is a strategic wedge for it against Microsoft.

A free toolkit helps database users migrate from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server database on-premise or in the cloud.

A free toolkit helps database users migrate from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server database on-premise or in the cloud.