Well, Oracle has answered back. "Oracle today announced a new migration tool that allows users to easily and quickly migrate data from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL," reads a July 25 news release.

With the latest public preview available, it's time to see if you want to upgrade to the most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far.

The strategic migration and consolidation of SQL server farms to the cloud, supported by automation technology, can result in benefits and pave the way for continued innovation, data utilization ...

Advanced SQL concepts include joins, grouping, aggregate functions, and Common Table Expressions (CTEs). ER diagrams can be generated using tools like MySQL Workbench and SQL Server Management Studio.

Variations on SQL are used by some of the most popular database tools in the world, including some of Oracle's database systems, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft's SQL Server.