Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:32:41 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASP running on FreeBSD via Apache/NGINX/Lighttpd Message-ID: <4F041CB9.7080704@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4F040043.6000902@gmail.com> References: <4F040043.6000902@gmail.com>
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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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