On August 12, Microsoft made available the first version of a tool designed to help customers migrate from MySQL to SQL Server and/or SQL Azure. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing ...

An early preview of database migration services, allowing Oracle and SQL Server applications to be more-easily shifted to Azure, is also part of today's Build keynote.

To migrate a non-SQL Server database—such as Microsoft Access, Sybase, MySQL, Oracle, or IBM DB2—to Azure SQL Database, Microsoft offers the SQL Server Migration Assistant.

Microsoft has announced the first CTP of a SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL v1.0, which automates aspects of the migration process to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 & 2008 including SQL ...

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.

MySQL Connector/ODBC v5.1.- Access to and sufficient permissions on the computer that hosts the target instance of SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 or SQL Azure database.- 1 GB RAM.

Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options, plus some open source workload additions. Most ...

That’s because Microsoft also today launched a new migration service that allows developers to take their third-party and SQL Server databases and move them to Azure SQL Database.