On August 12, Microsoft made available the first version of a tool designed to help customers migrate from MySQL to SQL Server and/or SQL Azure.

The version of the My SQL migration tool that supports SQL Server 2008 is designed to work with MySQL 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1. The version that supports SQL Server 2005 also supports MySQL 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1.

Microsoft has released its first community tech preview for a MySQL to SQL Server migration tool. This tool supports SQL Server 2005, 2008, and Azure.

He said it was "an excellent two-way learning experience" and one of the things he learned was that the SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL 1.0 (SSMA) can convert specific database queries in ...