The folks over at zmanda who specialize in MySQL backup are doing a webinar on December 13th, this Thursday. They specifically mention it as relevant for Oracle DBAs or anyone moving to MySQL. Looks to be an interesting event.
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I've been evaluating the latest version of the MySQL Migration Toolkit to work on migrations from SQLServer 2005 to MySQL 5.1Here are some of the things I found so far:Ease of use: Very simple and fast to get up and running - I was able to get multiple databases migrated from SQLServer to MySQL without any special setup or configuration changes. Gui is straight forward and intuitive.Took a