The company focuses on SQL Server 2014's in-memory capabilities in its bid to siphon enterprise database workloads from rival Oracle.

Call it the duel of the database migration tools. "The free Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) makes it easy to migrate data from Oracle, Microsoft Access, MySQL and Sybase to SQL Server, ...

Microsoft capped off a week of high-profile announcements related to SQL Server with an aggressive migration offer aimed at Oracle database customers.

Since the SQL Server Migration Assistants for Oracle became available in June of 2005, Microsoft says it has seen more than a 250,000 downloads across all of the SSMAs, with Motorola, Simon & Schuster ...

Recently, Microsoft began providing a free, downloadable database migration toolkit dubbed, SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA), which enables Oracle users to convert their database to SQL ...

The release candidate (RC) version of SQL Server 2012 is now available for download and testing.

Microsoft already offers migration tools for moving customers from Oracle, Sybase and Access to SQL Server. It also offers an analyzer for PowerBuilder, the spokesperson said.

Call it the duel of the database migration tools. "The free Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) makes it easy to migrate data from Oracle, Microsoft Access, MySQL and Sybase to SQL Server, ...