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Supercharge SQL Server to PostgreSQL migrations with AI-powered code conversion in Database Migration Service
- Google Cloud's Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports SQL Server to PostgreSQL migrations, facilitating modernization efforts and enabling the use of open-source databases.
- Migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL, while beneficial, can be complex due to differences in syntax, data types, and procedural languages, requiring expertise in both technologies.
- DMS automates data migration, schema conversion, and resident code conversion, offering a streamlined experience for database modernization.
- The platform features high-throughput initial loads and change data capture to minimize downtime during the migration process.
- An algorithmic code conversion engine automates schema and code conversion, reducing manual work for users by mapping source data types and SQL commands to PostgreSQL equivalents.
- The introduction of the Gemini automatic conversion engine aims to further automate conversion tasks and provide a comprehensive conversion report for SQL Server to PostgreSQL migrations.
- Gemini assists with targeted conversion training, explains conversion rationale, and optimizes migrated code for enhanced performance.
- Customers like Wayfair LLC have benefitted from Database Migration Service, citing reduced manual effort, improved efficiency, and simplified modernization processes.
- To initiate a SQL Server migration, users can create connection profiles, conversion workspaces, and migration jobs within the Google Cloud console, leveraging Gemini-powered capabilities.
- Database Migration Service offers detailed explanations of conversions, AI-assisted code conversion, and aims to simplify the migration process for SQL Server databases.
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