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How To Convert Individual Statement Using SSMA
You can use SSMA to convert a statement (such as PL/SQL) into T-SQL statement using SSMA. This functionality can be used, for example, to convert embedded SQL statement inside an application that...
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A Curious Case of NUMBER truncation
Oracle's FLOAT may truncate a float number beyond its binary digit limit. For example, execute the following in Oracle:DECLARE testvar FLOAT(5);BEGINTestvar :=...
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A Foreign Affair
You may run into issue when using SSMA to connect to Oracle database containing foreign characters (non-ASCII characters) in its schema. In the example below, we have an Oracle database containing a...
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Video: Converting Schema to SQL Server
This video walks you through the schema conversion of SSMA, including an example on how to resolve issue during conversionCheck out the other videos in this series:Introduction to SSMAPlanning Your...
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Saving Comments During Migration
During migration to SQL Server, you may find that the source database schema contains some comments to describe the schema. This can be as a comment within programming code (such as Oracle PL/SQL) in...
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Migrating Oracle to SQL Server using SSMA–Error O2SS0293: Columns list in set...
This blog post describes SSMA error message when converting Oracle PL/SQL UPDATE statement with column group assignment.Oracle PL/SQL allows you to perform multi column update through sub-query....
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Migrating Oracle to SQL Server Using SSMA - Emulating Oracle Package Variables
By Bill Ramos and Vishal Soni, Advaiya Inc. Oracle supports encapsulating variables, types, stored procedures, and functions into a package. When you convert Oracle packages, you need to...
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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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Converting Oracle UDT to SQL Server TVP
Oracle supports User Defined Type (UDT) which include object type and collection. This data type is not supported in SQL Server and SSMA does not support conversion of Oracle UDT. You may consider...
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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 Materialized View to SQL Server
By Gowri Shanker and Welly Lee.This blog post discusses approaches to migrate Oracle Materialized View to SQL Server. We compare Materialized View with SQL Server Indexed View, discuss scenarios...
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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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Emulating Records and Collections via CLR UDT
By Bill Ramos and Vishal Soni, Advaiya Inc.This blog covers how the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Oracle uses the SQL Server Common Language Runtime (CLR) User-Defined Types (UDT)...
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Converting Oracle Sequence to SQL Server "Denali"
Updated 2/7/2012 Jiafei Yuan - Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Oracle v5.2. The information provided below is still valid for SSMA for Oracle v5.2, but SQL Server "Denali" is...
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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....
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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...
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