Some organizations of businesses consider migrating their databases from SQL Server to MySQL on-premises or cloud platforms. For this purpose, software vendors offer the special solutions called SQL Server to MySQL converter. Those converters are able to migrate most important database objects, export entire data or individual tables handling all differences in formats of the two DBMS.

It is expected that advanced SQL Server to MySQL converter supports all major versions of SQL Server starting from 2016 and work with on-premises Unix, Linux and Windows MySQL including such variations as MariaDB and Percona as well as major cloud platforms like Azure, Amazon RDS, Google Cloud. Extra advantage of some database converters is option to support Azure SQL, cloud variation of Microsoft SQL DBMS.

Other basic features of SQL Server to MySQL converter are:

• Support for all SQL Server data types, built-in functions involved in default values
• Accurate conversion of table definitions, primary keys, indexes and constraints with all necessary attributes
• Intelligent processing of data according to the destination format of MySQL with respect to difference in masking special symbols, date formats and hexadecimal representation of binary data
• Option to convert SQL Server views into MySQL format
• Support for command line for scripting and scheduling the conversion
• Option to overwrite, merge or synchronize SQL Server data with an existing MySQL table
• Support for Windows 7/8/10
• Unicode support
• User-friendly interface
• Full install and uninstall support

The price of SQL Server to MySQL converter is ranged from zero to multiple hundreds of US dollars. It is not recommended to use free converters because such tools usually come without any technical support and guarantees of conversion quality. The ideal performance-price proportion is reached by conversion utilities having price around $50.

One of such tools is SQL Server to MySQL converter by Intelligent Converters, provider of software solutions for database conversion, migration and synchronization since 2001. This database migration tool has all capabilities listed above and it also provides extra advantages:

• For those cases when MySQL server does not accept remote connections, the program can export the data into SQL script file. In this approach SQL Server data is exported into local file containing data definition (DDL) statements to create tables with all indexes and constraints and fill them with the data. Later database specialistwill be able to import this file to MySQL server using the standard tools like phpMyAdmin.
• Sometimes it is required to convert partial data from a table or merge data from multiple tables into a single one. For these purposesSQL Server to MySQL converter allows to convert result of SELECT queries running against the source SQL Server database.
• If there is a need to change column name or type in the resulting database,the converter provides feature called “custom column mapping”. This feature allows changing name, type, default value and NULL-attribute for any column of SQL Server table as well as exclude certain columns from conversion.

Find more information about SQL Server to MySQLconverter at the official portal of Intelligent Converters company.

Robert Desauza