Just moved to sql azure from mysql / mysql workbench. I installed SQL Server Management Studio and was able to connect to the remote database on SQL Azure. Am able to view the database tables but how do I go about editing the tables or adding a column or a foreign key constraint. When I right click on the table it just gives me options for New Table, Script Table etc.
Does SQL Server Management Studio have something similar to the Mysql workbench UI. There were some posts discussing this but none specific to SQL Azure.
Currently any schema modifications can only be done via script. The things you can do with the GUI are still pretty limited. There are a number of 3rd party tools that offer varying degrees of functionality (houston, navicat, etc.) like you are expecting and I'm sure Microsoft's own offerings will improve. But, for now... scripting is the bread and butter of managing Azure.
A lot of people keep a copy of the database locally to work on with the SSMS GUI. Then when they are happy with what they have use the GUI to create the scripts to apply to the AZURE copy.
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I have few MySQL servers is separated online servers (from different wordpress) and I want to load some of the data on those databases/tablets into a SQL database located on Azure.
inside Azure portal itself I do not see where to establish external connections, neither at server level, neither at database level
I download and install Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, connect to the server, I can see my databse and the master one, Security with logins, and Integration Service Catalog, nothing else.
I was looking for something like:
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/go/db-tutorial-connecting-to-ms-sql-server.html#step-3-connect-to-microsoft-sql-server-with-datagrip
but nowhere ...
maybe something like this:
https://www.devart.com/odbc/mysql/docs/microsoft_sql_server_manager_s.htm
but no Servers objects option available on my SSMS
Can be this done?
Note: Azure database is a basic wfor now, if that is a limitation
Some choices.
In your SQL Server Management Studio create a linked server pointing to each MySQL instance. You found the instructions for that. https://www.devart.com/odbc/mysql/docs/microsoft_sql_server_manager_s.htm But it probably will not work in Azure SQL Server; you don't have access to the underlying Windows OS to install stuff like MySQL ODBC drivers, which you need. (You could ask Azure techsupport if they can help.)
In each MySQL instance, try creating a federated table connection to appropriate table in SQL Server. That cross-vendor federation stuff only works in MariaDB, however; MySQL's federation only goes MySQL <--> MySQL.
Write yourself a purpose-built extract / transform / load (ETL) program, and arrange to run it every so often. Program it to connect to all the servers involved, retrieve the data needing to be transferred from your MySQL servers, and update / insert that data on the SQL server.
(edit) You may be able to use command-line SQL client programs. mysqldump, with its --compatible option, may generate usable INSERT statements in a file. You then may be able to use sqlcmd to run those INSERTs on your Azure server. It's going to take some hacking, and may take using sed(1) or awk(1) to make the MySQL output compatible with SQL Server.
I believe the third option is the most robust one for production use.
I have made a web page which uses a local SQL database server.
Now that I want to publish the web page and place it online, I have to change everything, because the hosting server uses mySQL and presents me with his own mySQL database, and I don't know how to make that transition, I have an entity model in my solution and the Controller my database.
The specific question is - what are the steps to make that transition?
1 use SQL Tools (don't know what version you have) do a full backup.
2 from the new hosting server, restore the database.
3 change your connection strings or path (depends on programming environment) to use new MySQL.
Here is a link to what I used when I migrated in a similar way as to automate the whole process(Yes, it took a little learning but worth it). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpPANKhbpDs
try to install mysql connector
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-entityframework60.html
MySQL Workbench provides you with the Migration Wizard feature. It allows you to migrate databases from various RDBMS products to MySQL.
This documentation would help you get started,... http://mysqlworkbench.org/2012/07/migrating-from-ms-sql-server-to-mysql-using-workbench-migration-wizard/
There are also several paid tools available which convert MS SQL to MySQL, but I've never used them personally. These tool come with free trial so you can actually test them before purchase. You can also refer similar threads on Stackoverflow,...
How to migrate SQL Server database to MySQL?
How to export SQL Server database to MySQL?
I have a task to Migrate MySQL DB to Oracle (its my requirement) i tried to Migrate using SQL developer as defined in below link.
https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/migrating-mysql-table-using-oracle-sql-developer-15
As the DB is huge, the constraints are not copied properly from MySQL to Oracle, i need to define/alter/add constraints explicitly, which is time consuming (SQL developer migrates data 300rec/min from mysql to Oracle) & the entire procedure, views, functions is need to re write.
How can i ensure that data has migrated properly or not.?
Is this is a right approach to migrate?
Should i move to any tool which helps to Migrate? If yes please suggest the tool..!!
Or it is the right thing to Move from MySQL to Oracle.
Thanks in Advance.
No specific answer, but some genaral thoughts based on my experiences with migration.
I've found that there normally isn't one tool that does the whole migration job well, and by whole job I mean:
Fast
Handles all data types, scenarios
And that is from Oracle to Oracle!!
Last project we tried Oracle Golden Gate, and found there were issues with that.
We always end up with a hybrid approach, somethings like:
Extract all DDL manually and pre-create objects - there are weaknesses in the stagndard tools that confound them when extracting DDL, e.g. we found 10g expdp did not handle some quirky PLSQL well, so we resorted to extracting this ourselves.
Some tables work well with SQL Loader, others with GG, others (rare) with a custom extract and load process. We had over 3,500 tables and identified about 100 that worked better done as SQLLoader rather than GG. When I say better I mean with data handling and speed of migration. We created different groups of processing each group having a different method.
Once we have an overall hybrid scheme that works, we tune, mainly by splitting that task into parallel processes, both the export and import side.
All my migrations have been big projects where we have shifted from one Oracle system/server to another, always with the target being a newer version of OS and Oracle.
So, I would imagine that migration between non-Oracle and Oracle will through up even more challenges, and probably not as trivial as imply clicking a few buttons in SQL*Developer.
You may find the expected content from the SQL developer documentation at the Oracle website.
There are migration information available for all Microsoft Access users, MySQL users, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase Adaptive Server users.
You can also download the tutorial in forms of PDF (best for offline viewing and printing), ePub (best for most mobile devices) and Mobi (best for Amazon Kindle devices).
Recently, I have successfully migrated the MySQL database to Oracle database. Below are detail steps:
Operating System: Desktop Ubuntu local and Desktop Ubuntu on amazon aws
Please Note: Here I am using aws desktop ubuntu server because my mysql
database was pretty big. In my case there were 800 tables, 200 views,
procedures, triggers, and functions. The total size of the database was almost
20GB. In case of small database I would recommend to use local ubuntu server.
Tools Used: SQL Developer, VNCServer, Remote Desktop Client, JAVA 8, Third Party MySql JDBC Driver
1. Setup ec2 ubuntu desktop server : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljvgwmJCUjw
2. Install SQL Developer on #1
Download the SQL Developer package from this link :
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/index.html
Accept the license agreement and download "Other Platforms" for ubuntu.
Install the SQL developer package as the following.
sudo apt-get install sqldeveloper-package debhelper openjdk-7-jdk
openjdk-7-jre icedtea-7-plugin
Now all that you need to do is to run the command (you might have a
different version)
make-sqldeveloper-package sqldeveloper-4.1.3.20.78-no-jre.zip
This will generate a debian package that you can use to install SQL developer.
Now install the resulting .deb package using the command (Your deb
might have a different version too)
sudo dpkg -i sqldeveloper_4.1.3.20.78+0.2.4-1_all.deb
In my case, I have used java 8.
3. Once you have done with your SQL developer installation on your newly created ec2 instance with VNCServer then all you need to do is to connect to that ec2 instance with the Remote Desktop Client by default available in your ubuntu local machine.
Use IP:1 with user/pass setup for VNCServer in #1
You can see the remote ec2 ubuntu desktop server. You have to grab the keyboard inputs from the Remote Desktop tool if you want to tab inside the remote server.
Once you get connected with the remote client, open SQL Developer from the terminal or from the explorer.
sqldeveloper
Follow the migration steps provided by Oracle corporation:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/migration/mysql-093223.html
Please Note: While following the migration steps provided by the
oracle they will ask for the destination database connection i.e. oracle
database connection. This is not the database where your MySQL
database will be migrated. Instead, this database connection will
be used for the migration process. Your database connection user
must have user and database create privileges. Once your connection
have user create privilege, then migration process automatically create
the corresponding database user in Oracle database[if you have mysql_test_db in MySQL
database, same mysql_test_db will be created in Oracle db too].
I recently used sqline's tool http://www.sqlines.com/cmd to convert a dump from mysql in the form of an .sql script to an (almost) Oracle-compatible sql script.
sqlines31113\sqlines.exe -s=mysql -t=oracle "-in=$infile"
I just had to (semi-manually) fix some things in the output and then I could run it on my oracle database.
I already have a student version of SQL Server 2008. I used to have a student account which allows me to connect through the university server but since I've graduated I haven't had a chance to create my own databases. I can log on using my LocalHost. But I need to access my database online via php from my website. Could anyone tell me if there are any websites that can give me the opportunity to create online tables and use them via PHP? I have been searching for 2 days straight. I don't know what to search for anymore.
I have a somewhat small database in SQL Server Express 2005 that I really need to migrate over to a MySQL install on my hosting service (Dreamhost). After reading for a couple days, everything pointed to the MySQL Migration Toolkit, which is unfortunately EOL. I was able to find an archive and install it on my server running Sql Server. I set the source database, and set my Dreamhost MySQL as the destination. For whatever reason I get tons of permission errors trying to migrate although the user I'm connecting to MySQL as full permissions (working with dreamhost on this).
Is there a better way to do this? I've heard that I should use some third party tools, (like dbtools) and then I heard NOT to use third party tools.
Like I said the database is small, with a few views, a few functions, and a few stored procs, which I can manually move over if needed.
What are my options? Thank you!
Export your SQL Server database to a downloadable package (SSIS?)
Install SQL Server Express locally.
Install MySQL locally.
Run the Migration Toolkit locally.
Dump the MySQL database
Upload and run the Dump file # DreamHost (via phpMyAdmin if possible).
For such a small database you may spend more time trying to get a 3rd party tool to work for your situation than it would take you to just move the stuff manually. If you used standard SQL and little to nothing proprietary to SQL Server, creating the objects manually in MySQL should be easy enough... you just have to be aware of the slight syntax differences between the two platforms. Once the structures are created, generating insert statements to populate the data should also be trivial.