By Mary Chipman Overview In this blog post I’ll discuss how you can use the SSMA Migration Assistant for Access (SSMA) to refine data type mappings between Access and SQL Server, but first a little history lesson. You can think of Access as...

[Updated 2/6/2012 Selina Jia - Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL v5.2. The information provided below is still valid for SSMA for MySQL v5.2. Users should download the lastest SSMA for MySQL] In the blog post MySQL to SQL Server...

By Mary Chipman Overview In this blog post I’ll discuss some of the data migration issues you may encounter when migrating your Access schema to SQL Server. These consist of issues that you should address prior to migrating your data, and others are behavioral...

[Updated 2/7/2012 Selina Jia - Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL v5.2. The information provided below is still valid for SSMA for MySQL v5.2. Users should download the lastest SSMA for MySQL] In this blog post, I will describe...

By Mary Chipman In Part 2 I'll continue the discussion about how you can "tread lightly" on your SQL Server by making your Access front end an efficient and economical data consumer. I'll focus on techniques you can use to keep your application...

By Mary Chipman In Part 1 and Part 2 I’ll discuss your options for continuing to use Access as a front-end client once you have migrated the data to SQL Server. Some people come to SQL Server migration as Access developers who are new to SQL Server, whereas...

SSMA provides flexibility for you to migrate your data with one of the two options below: Client side data migration engine : This option migrate data through the client machine where SSMA is installed and provides a quick and easy way to migrate...

SSMA provides a project setting that allow you to customize how the conversion is done. This post describes the project setting options available for you as well as scenarios where you want to customize the setting. SSMA project setting options...