Hi Shani,
I used a tool called SQL Server Migration Client. But I did this a few
years back and I think it only works with windows.
Have a look at [1]

[1] - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssma/p/mysql.aspx

Thanks,
Madusanka

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Dhanuka Ranasinghe <dhan...@wso2.com>
wrote:

> I haven't done such thing before but you can try out something like this.
>
> Write some sql scripts which has some select insert statements (select
> form mysql insert into mssql). Hope this is not much complex since column
> names and table names are equal. You may need to write simple Java program
> to select queries and map them to insert statements which use both jdbc
> drivers. If you can use JPA this can be done easily.
>
> Cheers,
> Dhanuka
>
> *Dhanuka Ranasinghe*
>
> Senior Software Engineer
> WSO2 Inc. ; http://wso2.com
> lean . enterprise . middleware
>
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>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Shani Ranasinghe <sh...@wso2.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have come across a situation  where I need to migrate my MySQL db to
>> MSSQL in wso2 api manager. I have so far tried the following.
>>
>> 1) Using the ODBC connector and creating linked databases in MSSQL
>>     In this approach, when importing the database, the schema seems to
>> change, for e.g. for tables that have Auto increment  has been disappeared
>> when converting to a MSSQL schema, also the not null, null definitions have
>> been swapped at certain instances.
>>
>> 2) Used ODBC connector to import data to an existing database
>>     I kept getting the error ": The Source - am_api_comments was unable
>> to retrieve column information for the SQL command. The following error
>> occurred: ERROR [42000] [MySQL][ODBC 5.3(a)
>> Driver][mysqld-5.1.73-community]You have an error in your SQL syntax; check
>> the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right
>> syntax to use near '"am_api_comments"' at line 1" for every table.
>>
>> 3) Tried some online tools
>>    This too brought the errors in not converting the schema's properly as
>> step 1.
>>
>> 4) Exporting MySQL table by table as csv and importing them to MSSQL
>>     This is the only way I could get it working. It is a very tedious way
>> of getting it done :(
>>     i.e. 1) Export the data in MySQL data as csv file. When importing
>> must have a IFNULL check done for every varchar and not null column so that
>> the csv value is at the end correct so that the SQL can import it. An
>> example for this is that, when the MySQL column's have null values, when
>> exporting to csv, in the csv file it is needed to have a blank value, for
>> this we need to do the check. Once the csv's are ready from table to table,
>> we can import them to the MSSQL database, where we have already created the
>> schema.
>>
>>
>> I am not sure if I did step 1 & 2 correct or if there was any issue in
>> it. I followed some online article and blog but could not succeed. If
>> anyone has any experience on this or knows of any other ways I could try
>> please do let me know.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks and Regards
>> *,Shani Ranasinghe*
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>>
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>>
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