title: Use SSMA to migrate databases to SQL Server on Linux - SQL Server vNext CTP1 | Microsoft Docs

ms.date: 11/11/2016

This topic introduces [SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA)](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt613434.aspx) that helps you easily migrate databases to SQL Server vNext CTP1 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 vNext CTP1 on Linux and helps automate migration tasks such as:

- assessing your source database

- converting the source database schema to Microsoft SQL Server schema

- migrating the schema

- migrating the data

- testing the migration

Get started by downloading [SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA)](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/mt613434.aspx) for your source database and follow a tutorial there.

- Download [SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA)](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/mt613434.aspx) for your source database

- Learn more at the [SSMA blog](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ssma/)