[KLUG Members] Fwd: MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.0.7 beta Released

[Jamie McCarthy]

At the MySQL talk someone asked whether MySQL would be providing a
migration tool that would convert an SQL Server database to use
MySQL.  The beta tool that does that was just released.

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Date: 5/28/05 4:12 AM
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From: mzinner at mysql.com (Michael G. Zinner)
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MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.0.7 beta has been released.

The MySQL Migration Toolkit is a powerful framework that enables you to 
quickly migrate your proprietary databases to MySQL.

More information at:
            http://www.mysql.com/products/migration-toolkit

You can download sources and binaries for Windows from:
            http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/migration-toolkit


This release adds support for MS SQL Server and addresses a number of 
bugs. All users are recommended to update to this new release.

The list of new features includes
- Support for MS SQL Server 2000
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Renaming of target schema objects

The list of addressed bugs includes
- Incomplete data transfer from some tables
- Access BYTE and BIT not mapped to unsigned datatype
- Datetime columns were missing time
- Some Oracle/MS Access datatypes were not mapped


Best regards,
Mike
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MySQL AB, www.mysql.com
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