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Dmitry Balin from DB Best will be co-delivering a session at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C. The session is titled “Grow Your Business By Migrating Customers from Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server”, and it will focus on best practices and tools for ISVs to port their products to support SQL Server 2008, creation of “upgrade and migrate” packages for such migrations, and how to mitigate risks of switching platforms.

Lior Ribalov from DB Best will be delivering two Oracle Compete seminars and workshops organized by Microsoft Latvia on May 26, 2010 in Riga. The purpose of this workshop is to review the latest and greatest features of SQL Server 2008 R2, compare Oracle and SQL Server from both business and technical standpoint, and discuss best practices of migrating applications from Oracle to SQL Server. The seminars will be targeting both business and technical decision makers in the enterprises who are looking at adopting Microsoft platform and SQL Server by switching from competitive products. For additional questions about this workshop, please contact DB Best at info@dbbest.com.

DB Best has released a Beta version of the new product: DB Best Database Compare Suite. Being a “diff” for databases, the new product allows to compare and synchronize homogeneous and heterogeneous data sources. The released version provides schema and data comparison for Oracle/Oracle, SQL Server/SQL Server, and Oracle/SQL Server databases. Scripts bringing schema and data in synch can be executed from inside the Database Compare Suite, or can be saved for later run. Comparison can be executed from both UI and command line. Pricing starts from $179 per module with 14-day trial period. Please contact DB Best at info@dbbest.com to get a license.

DB Best released “Guide for Migrating from Oracle to SQL Server 2008”. This technical whitepaper covers different aspects of migration, such as data type mapping, conversion of Oracle stored procedures, triggers, functions, views, packages, sequences to SQL Server 2008. Significant emphasis has been placed on addressing conversion issues not covered by SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). This guide is a result of deep technical expertise being created in DB Best after years of delivering successful database and application migration projects for customers worldwide. The guide can be downloaded from the following link. For further information please contact DB Best at info@dbbest.com.

Dmitry Balin from DB Best delivered two-days migration seminar in Stockholm, Sweden organized by Microsoft Sweden. A former Director in SQL Server product group at Microsoft, Dmitry described “why to migrate” and “how to migrate” to SQL Server 2008, shared best practices and lessons learned, demonstrated usage of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) – the tool originally developed by DB Best and acquired by Microsoft in 2005. After answering multiple questions from the audience, Dmitry had a number of meetings with a local customers and partners to provide migration support and guidance. Watch video from the migration seminar at the following link. For further inquires about migration projects please contact DB Best at info@dbbest.com.