Migration from SQLServer to MySQL

I used MySQL Migration Toolkit to do this job. However, some tables with Chinese character could not be migrated successfully. After some experiments, I found the problem was caused by incorrect character encoding.

Firstly, you should specify encoding of the source table. In Source Database stage, fill Connection String with something like:
jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://127.0.0.1:1433/test;user=sa;password=sa;charset=gbk;domain=
The key is to set the charset encoding as gbk (default is utf-8).



Secondly, you should specify encoding of the target table. In Object Mapping stage, change Parameter from Latin1 to Multilanguage. So the table you are going to create would be based on utf-8 encoding.