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# Automate database migration to Linux with the SQL Server Migration Assistant

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This article introduces [SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA)](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/mt613434.aspx) that helps you easily migrate databases to SQL Server 2017 on Linux from Microsoft Access, DB2, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase. SSMA is a Windows application, so use SSMA when you have a Windows machine that can connect to a remote SQL Server instance on Linux. 

SSMA supports a variety of source databases including Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, DB2, and Microsoft Access to SQL Server 2017 on Linux and helps automate migration tasks such as:

- Assess your source database
- Convert the source database schema to Microsoft SQL Server schema
- Migrate the schema
- Migrate the data
- Test the migration

To get started, download SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for your source database from the following list:
- [SSMA for Access](http://aka.ms/ssmaforaccess)
- [SSMA for DB2](http://aka.ms/ssmafordb2)
- [SSMA for MySql](http://aka.ms/ssmaformysql) 
- [SSMA for Oracle](http://aka.ms/ssmafororacle)
- [SSMA for Sybase ASE](http://aka.ms/ssmaforsybase) 

Next, follow the [SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA)](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/mt613434.aspx) to migrate your source database to SQL Server 2017 on Linux.

## See also
- [Microsoft Data Migration blog](http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/datamigration)
- [SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) blog](http://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ssma/)