Migrate with SQL Server Migration Assistant

• Linux

This article introduces

Migration Assistant

that helps you easily migrate databases

to SQL Server on Linux from Microsoft Access, DB2, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase. SSMA is a

Windows application, so use SSMA when you have a Windows machine that can connect to a

remote SQL Server instance on Linux.

SSMA supports a variety of source databases including Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, DB2, and

Microsoft Access to SQL Server on Linux and helps automate migration tasks such as:

Assess your source database

Convert the source database schema to Microsoft SQL Server schema

Migrate the schema

Migrate the data

Test the migration

To get started, download SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for your source database from

the following list:

SSMA for Access

SSMA for DB2

SSMA for MySQL

SSMA for Oracle

SSMA for Sybase ASE

Next, follow the

Migration Assistant

to migrate your source database to SQL Server

on Linux.

Microsoft Data Migration blog

Migration Assistant (SSMA) blog