ASP running on FreeBSD via Apache/NGINX/Lighttpd

[Matthew Seaman]

On 04/01/2012 07:31, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
> PS. I will need to convert the mssql data to mysql, is there any good
> program that will convert this? I understand that this question is
> probably inappropriate for this e-mail thread but maybe someone could
> shoot me a quick suggestion.

This is probably the easiest part of your porting project.  What you
need to do is:

   * Examine the table definitions in mssql and write equivalents for
     MySQL.  Ditto for other DB objects like enum types.

   * Dump out table contents in CSV format -- where 'C' doesn't have to
     be 'comma' necessarily: it depends on the nature of your data.

   * Read the CSV files into MySQL.

   * Examine all the SQL queries made by your application and translate
     them into SQL that MySQL can understand.

SQL is unfortunately a horribly non-standard language.  All of the
different RDBMS variants have their own dialect of it, with many
non-standard extensions.  Unfortunately, while there is a SQL standard,
generally you will need to use non-standard bits either for performance
or simply because there is no way to do what you want otherwise.  Also,
SQL syntax is just intrinsically horrible.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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