Oracle Upgrade: Offers route from SQL Server to MySQL

MySQL Workbench 5.2, the latest version has a new migration wizard designed to provide an easy way to migrate from third party products to MySQL. This first version of the wizard lets you migrate from Microsoft SQL Server and from databases supporting ODBC such as PostgreSQL. It has also been improved with over 100 bug fixes and code completion in the SQL Editor. Here's the full list of bug fixes. An Excel plug-in that you can use to import data from MySQL to Excel for local analysis was also released by Oracle. The lack of licensing costs and claims that MySQL works out to 90 percent cheaper to use than SQL Server, Oracle is hoping to tempt SQL Server users to MySQL. Whatever the promises made by Oracle who have their own Oracle database management server, there is still a question mark among SQL Server users. Most SQL Server users are wary of committing to MySQL because of the history of the Oracle takeover. Oracle acquired MySQL as part of the Sun takeover. Oracle promise to continue the development of MySQL in order to be approve by the European Commission, the condition only lasts until 2015. Whatever happens to the development, just keep yourself updated with the recent release of MySQL Workbench 5.2 C.1.1. Changes. Here's the full list of recent release.