Our database migration software offers powerful and comfortable way to convert and synchronize data from MS SQL to MySQL database. Even with no SQL knowledge you are able to move or replicate data easily.
Incredibly fast database engine of converter is able migrate 1 million records and more in 5-10 min.
Views conversion from MS SQL to MySQL performs automatically and doesn’t require knowing differences between SQL dialects from your side.
Trigger-based synchronization method increases replication speed in times.
Integrated Data Types Mapping capability assists to match MySQL data types with their closest and relative MS SQL Server equivalents. Read more information about Data types mapping between MS SQL and MySQL.
A question about comparing SQL Server and MySQL pros and cons appeared regularly on various developer resources is quite common one. Actually, it is difficult to say that MS SQL is better than MySQL or vice versa. Comparing them, especially regarding their performance, has no sense. Choosing a database directly depends on experience of database developer or DBA. You can use both of these products to build reliable and efficient systems.
MSSQL and MySQL have their own advantages over each other. But there are some good reasons to migrate their databases to MySQL.
Why shifting from SQL Server to MySQL.
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Cross-platform support: MySQL database can be run on several platforms including Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac OS. If you are one of the *nix guys then there are a plenty of options and MySQL would be a right choice.
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Cost Effective: MySQL is free open-source database engine. Reasonable price is charged for commercial organizations. Cost factor would be a key point in decision of choosing MySQL for a small business startup.
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Transparency: Unlimited improvement and tuning of code is possible due to the fact that MySQL is open source.
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Reliability and stability: A lot of worldwide contributors help to debug and improve MySQL engine constantly. So found bugs can be reported continuously and eliminated effectively.
Move data directly from one server to another or save data into MySQL Dump or PHP script for export to MySQL database.
You can run conversion/synchronization by scheduler or via command line.
Trial versions limitations
Product highlights
- Views conversion from MS SQL to MySQL and Oracle and back support
- Bi-directional synchronization between MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL
- MS SQL Server Express 2005/2008/2008 R2/2012, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008 R2/2012, SQL Azure support
- MS SQL schemes support
- Saving data into a MS SQL Dump for export to MS SQL database
- Ability to select TCP/IP, PIPE, IPX/SPX communications protocols
- Speed conversion with Bulk and Quantization features
- Views conversion from MySQL to MS SQL and Oracle and back support
- Saving data into a MySQL Dump and PHP script for export to MySQL database
- Ability to connect to MySQL Server 4.x/5.x located on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows machines
- Speed conversion with Bulk and Quantization features
- Also see common features for all DBConvert tools
Requirements
- MDAC 2.8
- Necessary privileges to write into database on the target MS SQL server (this requirement is optional as there is an option to overcome the restrictions using dump file)
- Necessary privileges to write into database on the target MySQL server (this requirement is optional as there is an option to overcome the restrictions using dump file or PHP Script)
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