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SQL Saturday in Chicago - Schedule is up!
Scheduled!
The SQL Saturday in Chicago team has been working pretty hard lately on the schedule. It was difficult to complete due to all of the sessions being so good. I was close to trying a two day event so we could get all ~70 submissions up the weekend of April 17th.
You can now see the schedule up on the SQL Saturday site
Microsoft Announces SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL
This is just a quick post letting you know that Microsoft has announced the SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL This tool is available for download now.
Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) 2008 is a toolkit that dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating from MySQL to SQL Server 2008 and SQL Azure. SSMA 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 provides an assessment of migration efforts as well as automates schema and data migration.
Supported Operating Systems:
Windows 7; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Server 2008 ...
Introducing SQL Server to Oracle
Over the last few weeks I have been working on the task of bringing an Oracle database into my SQL Server landscape. The basic process that needs to be accomplished is to get this Oracle database pumped into the existing SQL Server structure primarily to address the reporting aspect and requirements. The software that utilizes the Oracle database could easily sit in their own little world without much need for us to go outside that shell but given my completely SSRS reporting structure, there is a need to build off the new data store for the users taking into account the completely native...
SSMS Tools PACK, Something Every SQL Server Developer That Uses SSMS Should Have Installed
This post was already published yesterday, someone deleted it by mistake so I had to recreate it...sorry for that (and thanks for google cache :-))
SSMS Tools PACK is an Add-In (Add-On) for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express, this tool is developed by Mladen Prajdić.
SSMS Tools PACK contains a few upgrades to the IDE that were missing from Management Studio:
Most of the database developers these days don't work with just one RDBMS, a large percentage will work with at least two of them. SQL In A Nutshell will help you with that, no longer do you have the need for two or more books open at the same time. I asked Kevin Kline if he would be interested in an interview and as you can see he said yes.
Denis: Is the book geared towards a beginner/intermediate level user or d...
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