Make migrating from MySQL to SQL Server Easier

If you are migrating your MySQL database to SQL Server any time soon, you will be very happy to hear that The Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) family now includes a CTP 1.0 for MySQL which has just been released. Versions are included for both SQL 2005 & SQL 2008.

The Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is a toolkit that dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating to SQL Server.

See more details & download from here: https://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2010/01/11/free-download-microsoft-sql-server-migration-assistant.aspx

So now the SSMA family includes the following free toolkits:

SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for Access V4.0

SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for Oracle V4.0

SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for Sybase PowerBuilder Applications v1.0

SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for Sybase ASE V4.0

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 12, 2010
  Just out of interest, what are the incentives for people to migrate from MySQL to SQL Server? The process may be easy, but I'm not sure why MySQL shops would bother to begin with.