The Data Platform Insider blog details how Microsoft have announced the first CTP of the SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Web site. The toolkit works with MySQL 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1

Thanks to Paul Thurott for the original link.

I use Joomla on a couple of sites, and discovered one of them had crashed this morning with an error:

jtablesession::StoreFailed
DB function failed with error number 145
Table ‘.\joomla\jos_session’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired SQL=….

Googling, I found that the solution to this was to truncate the jos_session database table however I was unable to log onto the database using the mysql command line tool.

I found that restarting the database service and then truncating the table however did the track and everything is now back working.