MySQL (the most widely used open source database software in the world, currently owned by Sun Microsystem) is both a competitor and a partner for Microsoft (MySQL previously joined the Visual Studio Industrial Partner Program), and since Oracle announced that it will After acquiring Sun MicroSystem (incidentally acquiring Sun's MySQL database), MySQL has become an enemy of Microsoft (Oracle's Oracle database is the most powerful opponent of Microsoft's SQL Server). Therefore, it is not surprising that Microsoft released the MySQL to SQL Server migration tool this time.
The MySQL migration tool is one of the tools of Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant. This release supports the preview version of CTP1.0 and supports SQL server 2008. The corresponding MySQL database supports 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1. Previously, a migration tool for SQL Server 2005 was also released. The download address is as follows:
Download:Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2005 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1
Download:Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1