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 Azure launched a database migration service that allows businesses to migrate their Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server databases to the Azure cloud. In a blog post, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, ...

Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle SQL Developer Release 1.2 that features new capabilities to ease the migration and consolidation of third-party databases onto Oracle Database ...

Planning a database migration/upgrade entails numerous issues that require close attention. The most common issue is system downtime. Accounting for the possibility of extended system downtimes and ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it is introducing a database migration assessment tool to help Oracle users move from Oracle Database to Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The new service is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yugabyte Inc. said today that its unified database migration service YugabyteDB Voyager is now generally available, giving enterprises a simplified way to migrate workloads to its open-source ...

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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 ...