Oracle

Arindam Mondal
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Understanding Substring in Oracle SQL

March 22, 2023 by

The Oracle SQL database provides many useful functions to use with your query or programming. The SUBSTR function is one of the most used string functions in the Oracle SQL database. I will also discuss a few important string functions TRIM, UPPER, and LOWER which can be used along with substring functions. In this article, we will discuss substring in Oracle SQL.

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Randheer Parmar
Oracle Database Migration to Azure SQL Database. SQL Server Migration Assistant.

Migrating Oracle Database to Azure SQL Database

February 9, 2023 by

Data Modernization has become important nowadays. Organizations are looking into options to migrate their on-premises database to a cloud and some other heterogeneous databases. In this article, we will see the strategy and options to migrate the Oracle database to the Azure SQL database. We will be leveraging the SSMA tool for migrating the database.

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Jefferson Elias

A concrete example of migration between an Oracle Database and SQL Server using Microsoft Data Migration Assistant

April 12, 2018 by

Introduction

Intended audience

This document is intended for application developers and database administrators who plan to migrate an Oracle Database to Microsoft SQL Server.

Context

In the previous article, we saw how to install and prepare to migrate one or more Oracle Schema(s) and their objects to SQL Server. Now it’s time to go through the migration process…

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Jefferson Elias

Migrating an Oracle Database to SQL Server with Microsoft Data Migration Assistant – Installation Process and Short Overview

March 27, 2018 by

Intended audience

This document is intended for application developers and database administrators who plan to migrate an Oracle Database to Microsoft SQL Server.

Context

Nowadays, most IT professionals are aware that Oracle Database is a very good database solution, but it’s not inexpensive, to say the least. If you want to partition a table in Oracle, it’s an option that you must pay for, which is the same for advanced security options like Database Encryption or Dynamic Data Masking. In contrast, SQL Server comes with these options out of the box when you use the Enterprise Edition.

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Vitor Montalvão

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v7.1 for Oracle

December 12, 2016 by

Introduction

SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is a free supported tool from Microsoft that simplifies and automates database migration processes (assessment analysis, necessary conversions, data migration and tests) from Microsoft Access, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase and DB2 to SQL Server, Azure SQL DB and SQL Server vNext (at the time I’m writing this article, SQL Server vNext stills in CTP1 version, so being a technical preview version it should not be used for production migrations).

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