Mysql is an open source storage and retrieval system which offers many variations in the database engine, including BerkeleyDB, InnoDB, MyISAM and Heap. Making the migration to MSSQL is the Microsoft product that will limit you to a Sysbase-derived database engine. Depending on your needs, you alone can determine if you will be happier with and open-source or a proprietary structure.

MySql is cheaper than the Microsoft product, because there is more power in the MSSQL. However, there is one HUGE caveat: MSSQL is geared to working well with other Microsoft offerings. If you decide to migrate your database from MySql to MSSQL, you will find that the new database lacks the ability to work seamlessly with many other applications. What worked before might absolutely be broken in the new platform. You can use our MySql to MSSQL converter today.

Buying licenses for MySQL is much less expensive than for the Microsoft database system. Although developers can use MSSQL with one purchased license for Microsoft Developer or Microsoft Visual Studio Suite, once you need clients, you will get hit with a price tag of $1000 or more. With a MySQL commercial license that covers up to 9 clients, you will only have to invest around $400.

If you decide that you want to move from MYSQL to MSSQL, it is imperative that you weigh all of the costs, both in compatibility of other web-based technologies and programming languages and in the actual price tag assigned to be able to expand your business by buying client licenses.  A full analysis of the costs and benefits respective to your specific needs is the only way to make an intelligent decision.

Converting your database to another platform can be an overwhelming process. Let us help you make it an easy migration, Full Convert by Spectral Core offers a clear and easy solution. Try it today!

A slight hiccup in your internet connection, dumping you out of your database when it is hosted completely in the Access platform can leave you with a broken trail of lost data. It is simply the nature of Access. You can use our Access to MySql converter today. By laying your database on MySql – the database itself has a stability not realized by Access. If you lose your remote connection to your database, the MySql system simply recognizes you are no longer connected and disconnects your login. This saves you from broken data records and mismatched trails, enabling you to sign back in once your internet connectivity is restored without any data loss. You can return to what you were doing and complete the transactions or record retrieval with no negative consequences at all.

Migrating to MySql from Access is the perfect response to you if the database you use is growing into a retrieval system that you would like to reach from somewhere other than the resident machine. After all, the goal of using the database is making it as accessible as possible, this means you might want to login from the local coffee shop or from a client’s office. Taking the plunge to move to a more stable product allows you the opportunity to take your business to the next level.

One of the easiest ways to sell your service and grow beyond the boundaries of your office walls is to show new clients how you can serve them. The optimum way to do that is to login to your database from a remote location, and let them see your capabilities firsthand.

Converting your database to another platform can be an overwhelming process. Let us help you make it an easy migration, Full Convert by Spectral Core offers a clear and easy solution. Try it today!

Take advantage of our software, you can use our XML to Oracle converter today. Using Full Convert to make the migration will take the grief out of the total process. Knowing that Full Convert is already a ‘good to go’ package without the twists and turns you would expect when making such a huge change will leave you time to start populating and utilizing the new Oracle format instead of troubleshooting problems. No longer will you have to review each table and each field to make sure that the conversion went as planned.

Once the conversion is done, you will watch your data grow with your company. The goal is to implement a new database structure and get back to the business of your business, not spend time looking backward. With the utilization of Full Convert, the migration will be a completed project in short order and you can spend valuable time looking forward – to more sales and a healthier set of financial statements. Once you see how easy the move was, you’ll kick yourself for waiting so long to pull the trigger. With the usefulness of your new conversion to Oracle, you will welcome new tables and new data fields to be built into your database system. You will be able to pull the records you want and populate new reports with ease.

Converting your database to another platform can be an overwhelming process. Let us help you make it an easy migration, Full Convert by Spectral Core offers a clear and easy solution. Try it today!

You can use our Paradox to Oracle converter today. Oracle offers you many options within the database management system that you haven’t enjoyed in Paradox. Although all databases have their strengths, Oracle is used by major corporations for a reason: it manages a vast amount of data, and manages it very well. You don’t need to recreate the wheel, you need a database system that will allow you to grow without limitations and Oracle will provide that to you. Once you have made the decision, all that’s left is taking the step to making the change.

Any database conversion is a big step. No matter how much data you have, the Paradox system is already working for you, so considering a conversion leaves you with that anxiety in the pit of your stomach that tells you to leave well enough and deal with whatever glitches you are currently experiencing. But you know that the best thing you can do is to move forward and make the migration to Oracle. With Full Convert, by Spectralcore, you will feel that anxiety lifted away as you see your conversion work like a charm.

You will be amazed by the differences you will notice in moving from Paradox to Oracle. Don’t hesitate any longer.

Converting your database to another platform can be an overwhelming process. Let us help you make it an easy migration, Full Convert by Spectral Core offers a clear and easy solution. Try it today!

You can use our Excel to Access converter and get back to the business of building your customer base and increasing your bottom line. Getting away from the myriad of spreadsheets will allow you to take the reigns of your company once again and make swift moves that keep up with changing technology and market demands. Full Convert will take your data and migrate it into Access, leaving you with more time to work on the business instead of memorizing macros to garner the needed information from Excel.

Any conversion is frightening; after all, if it works don’t fix it. But if you are thinking about using an Excel to Access converter – you have already decided that it’s no longer working. You recognize there are limitations in using spreadsheets to manage your data. These limitations are slowing down your business and your staff – you have maxed out on what Excel can provide for you.

You need to make a change – take that step today. Don’t wait one minute longer, you’ll be glad you made the change!

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1. Launching a new product is one of such situations, and we will use BitsDuJour to get our new database manager/advanced SQL query tool Rapid Query v1.0 into hands of as many users as quickly as possible. Having hundreds of users of first version of your application is invaluable for feedback you get. You get to know what your customers need right away.
2. When you know you will be getting a lot of users. It’s like offering a volume discount.

Paying users are special. They are generally very kind and thankful for all the ways you make their life easier. You want to communicate with customers much more than with prospects – trust me on this. Your customers are always much more dedicated to give you feedback and cooperate in improving your stuff than trial version users. They already crossed the psychological barrier of entering the credit card information, so they are very interested. Also, it is much easier to sell your new products and services to your existing customers than to any other group of your website visitors, so it clearly makes sense to get as many customers as possible. Of course, this applies if you have many related products or services.

BitsDuJour audience are impulse buyers. This means that product must not be too expensive – $20 or so is the optimal price. I decided to offer a full 90% discount on our proven $299+ product, Full Convert Enterprise. So, I will be able to see how many are more inclined to buy when they see they are getting 90% discount compared to 70% discount they will be getting for Rapid Query. In future, I plan to use A/B testing wherever possible, not only on our landing pages.

Full Convert is scheduled on BitsDuJour for March, 13:

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/full-convert-enterprise/

If you ever wanted to get an industrial-grade database converter practically for free, that’s your day.

When you are a programmer and customers like your products, it’s easy to fall into trap thinking that improving your business is done 99% by improving the applications. However, that’s not exactly true – even if you have the best software in the world, if it is a niche product, word of mouth isn’t enough to reach the tipping point where ‘everybody knows what you do’. So, it’s crucial to track where do your customers come from, and simply, make that stream as large as you can.

To have as precise analytics as possible, we used asynchronous Google tracking code. So, instead of placing tracking code on the bottom of the page (before </body> tag), it will be placed on the top (right after opening <body> tag). As it is asynchronous code, it doesn’t slow down page loading, but does run earlier than standard tracking code.

Here is the code snippet:

<script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
  _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);
  _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(ga);
  })();

</script>

Two bolded lines (_setDomainName and _setAllowLinker) are required for cross-domain tracking, and you should replace UA-XXXXX-X with your Google Analytics domain identifier.

Second thing we need to do is to update links to online shop. In addition to normal href tag of the link, we have to add onlick Javascript event to push necessary cookies across domains:

<a href="https://your.shop/url" onclick="_gaq.push(['_link', 'https://your.shop/url']); return false;">Buy Now</a>

The last thing needed is placing proper tracking script to your shopping cart pages (on domain other than your site). This step is actually probably not needed, as many shops now directly support Google Analytics and you only need to give them your UA-XXXXX-X GA site identifier. I know Plimus, FastSpring, and PayPro support GA natively – and probably many others, too.

In case your shop doesn’t support GA natively, this is not hard. Paste the async tracking code we used above to each page of your shop, right after opening <body> tag. You will probably have a template page in your shop control panel, so you will only need to do it in one place.

Don’t be lazy in a wrong places, as I have been for way too long. You cannot improve what you don’t track – so make sure you know exactly from where your customers come, why do they buy, how many of them downloaded trial, and as much other information you can.

We changed the name from SQL Translator to SqlTran, as it’s shorter, catchy – and sqltran.com was available. We will use that domain in the future for SqlTran exclusively. As this product will certainly grow, and database migration is so complex due to the differences between different engines – we will need extensive online help, community etc. However, we have so much work still ahead, that this will wait a bit.

SqlTran 1.0 migrates MySQL 5.1 to SQL Server 2008. All older versions are supported, too, of course.

What SqlTran provides is a comfortable database translation. Basically, point it to the source database, tell it which is your target – and it will do the magic. All your tables, views, procedures, functions, triggers – and of course data – are written in the target. What paid professional expert would do manually in weeks or even months, SqlTran does in a few seconds. Cool, eh?

Take a look and tell me what you think about it: www.spectralcore.com/sqltran/

So, where are we now? We have written lexical and semantic parsers for MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle – with Firebird, PostgreSQL and others to follow. I can tell you, these grammars are huge! Our semantic parser is very fast, it parses hundreds of thousands lines of code in a few seconds, and gives us perfect in-memory object representation of the SQL commands. We have covered most of the statements in each SQL dialect, and consciously skipped some exotic statements that probably not many people use. People are signing up on our beta tester list daily, and I am happy that you will soon be able to test our long-term effort.

How does it work? You will be able to hand over just a SQL script file, and we analyze all the code, show you all objects in a nice tree list, and you can browse both the original and the translated code easily. You can also modify the translated code by hand and we won’t touch that object’s translation (unless you choose to revert to default). You can even refresh the source at any time without losing your manual tweaks. You can also connect to the live source database and we will fetch a definition for each object – the rest is pretty much the same as if you were working with a script.

For output, you can either create a database creation SQL file, or you can connect to your live target database server and have everything moved over seamlessly and test the code logic.

Sign up for notifications or beta testing here: www.spectralcore.com/sqltranslator/

So, after being fed up with the sluggish VS interface once too much, I googled to see if there is a solution. Guess what? I found it in just a few minutes and am not cursing VS anymore. Because of this issue, at least.

In short, if your problem is caused by the same thing that slowed me down, just go to Internet Options (either from Control Panel or from IE’s Tools menu) and uncheck the Check for publisher’s certificate revocation* in the  Advanced tab, under Security Node section in the tree list.

Read the whole thread here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/bc778e26-9156-4924-a9ca-a57ef8ff6bcc