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Part1: Creating a Custom SSMA Report
SSMA provides a migration assessment report to help you identify potential migration issues . You can generate the assessment report by selecting source schema, right click and select Create Report....
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Part2: Creating a Custom SSMA Report
This is part 2 of the article for creating custom SSMA report using SSIS and SSRS. In the previous post, we discussed how to use SSIS package to extract XML files containing SSMA assessment report...
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Part3: Creating a Custom SSMA Report
In the last part of this installment, I will show an example of SSRS report using the data we parsed in part 2 and extracted from SSMA in part1. For this report, I would like to list all projects and...
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Protecting DBA’s secret
One common challenge for a migration project is for a DBA to give password to access a database that he/she owns. This article shows an approach where DBA can keep the password while allowing a...
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Video: Analyzing Database Using SSMA
This video walks you through database assessment feature of SSMA:Check out the other videos in this series:Introduction to SSMAPlanning Your Database MigrationAnalyzing Database Using SSMAConverting...
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Video: Automating Database Migration Using SSMA Console Application
This video introduces SSMA console application which can automate your SSMA database migration tasks:Detailed walkthough and sample file for using SSMA console application can be found here.Check out...
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SSMA @TechEd Video
SSMA session from North America TechEd is now available from Channel 9.
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Improving Performance of SSMA Migration Assessment
When performing migration assessment for a large schema (with thousands of objects), you can use the following to help improve performance:Run SSMA application on hardware with x64 bit Windows and...
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Migrating Oracle to SQL Server using SSMA–Error O2SS0041 Illegal Identifier
When converting Oracle schema to SQL Server using SSMA, you may encounter an error when your table contains a DATE column with default value. This blog post describes the reason for the error and what...
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Migrating Oracle ANYDATA to SQL Server
By Welly Lee, Pinaki Bag, and Jayakumar Tanneru.Oracle has an object data type called anydata. This data type supports wide range of data types. For example when creating a table with a column defined...
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How SSMA Estimates Manual Conversion Time
SSMA automates conversion of most statement. There are a few features and syntax which SSMA is unable to migrate. In such situation, SSMA issues a migration error and for each error, SSMA provides...
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Identifying Database Migration Opportunity Using MAP 6.0
Microsoft announced the release of Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit 6.0. The new version of MAP reports the existence of Oracle database instances and provides information that can be...
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Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) 5.2 is Now Available
Automating Database Migration to SQL Server 2012SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v5.2 is now available. SSMA simplifies database migration process from Oracle/Sybase/MySQL and Microsoft Access to...
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Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v5.3 is now available.
SSMA simplifies database migration process from Oracle/Sybase/MySQL and Microsoft Access to SQL Server and SQL Azure. SSMA automates all aspects of migration including migration assessment analysis,...
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Latest Update - Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v6.0 is now...
SSMA simplifies database migration process from Oracle/Sybase/MySQL and Microsoft Access to SQL Server and SQL Azure. SSMA automates all aspects of migration including migration assessment analysis,...
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Securing MS Linked Tables Connection Strings During Migration
Microsoft Access stores all the connection strings for the respective linked tables in a system table called MSysObjects. As seen below, the connection strings contain clear-text used id and password....
View ArticleProcedures/Functions with ROWTYPE Parameters Defaulted to NULL
The %ROWTYPE attribute in Oracle defines the particular record type of a row in a table. A common usage of %ROWTYPE attribute is to have variables declared as ROWTYPE of a table to transfer data in...
View ArticleCan’t migrate from Sybase ASA to SQL Server using SSMA
Unfortunately we never had Sybase ASA on our plans for SSMA. The plan is still intact and we still support migration from Sybase ASE 11.9 onwards with the latest version of SSMA for Sybase...
View ArticleMicrosoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v5.3 is now available.
SSMA simplifies database migration process from Oracle/Sybase/MySQL and Microsoft Access to SQL Server and SQL Azure. SSMA automates all aspects of migration including migration assessment analysis,...
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SSMA simplifies database migration process from Oracle/Sybase/MySQL and Microsoft Access to SQL Server and SQL Azure. SSMA automates all aspects of migration including migration assessment analysis,...
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