Release: SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v8.20

Microsoft

May 31, 2021

Overview

SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is a suite of 5 tools designed to automate migrations from Oracle, Access, DB2, MySQL and SAP ASE (formerly SAP Sybase ASE) to Microsoft SQL. It automates the conversion of database schemas to a Microsoft SQL Server schemas, deployment of the schemas, data migration to the target SQL Server (see below for supported versions), and validation of migrated objects.

What's new?

The latest releases of SSMA for Oracle enables automatic partition conversion for Oracle partitioned tables while migrating to Azure SQL and SQL on-premises. You can leverage your Oracle partition strategy and accelerate your migration by retaining the partition model even when there is no direct type mapping in SQL. Moreover you can now automatically convert SKIP LOCKED clause and save significant development time.

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In addition, this release includes the following:

SSMA for MySQL, SSMA for Access and SSMA for SAP ASE surface minor performance improvements and bug fixes

SSMA for DB2 is enhanced with:

Improved VARCHAR_FORMAT emulation function
Fixed table discovery issues for DB2 for i

Downloads

Supported sources and target versions

Source: For the list of supported sources, please review the information on the Download Center for each of the above SQL Server Migration Assistant downloads.

Target: SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2019, Azure SQL Database, an Azure SQL Database managed instance, and Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure Synapse Analytics)*.

*Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure Synapse SQL Pool) is supported as a target only when using SSMA for Oracle.