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 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 ...

For instance, if you want to move a database from Oracle ... delineated steps, all using the tools provided in SSMA. Once you have downloaded and opened the Microsoft SQL Server Migration ...

Normally, these steps are done manually ... Are you moving from more expensive platforms (Oracle, Db2, SAP ASE) to SQL Server or Azure SQL? Or are you interested in migrating to other open source ...

The one thing that still fills me with dread is the idea of migrating from one database to another. Now I am not talking about updating from SQL 2005 to 2008 or from Oracle 10g to 11g, these do a ...

and free professional services to move Oracle workloads onto SQL Server. The professional services here really are key -- the biggest expense of a migration project is refactoring the data types ...

The company has a limited-time Oracle-to-SQL-Server migration offer, where Microsoft Software Assurance customers can swap Oracle licenses for SQL Server licenses at no cost. It’ll be intriguing ...