Comments on: Migration from MySQL to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

By: protected static

protected static — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:53:34 +0000

Very useful, thanks…

Here’s a thought - instead of doing it all by hand, you could link to INFORMATION_SCHEMA, too.
Declare an nvarchar @table_name to hold table name, instantiate a cursor on this:

select [table_name] from tables where table_schema = “Db_NAME”

Use the cursor to loop through all the table names, setting @table_name with each fetch and generating your ’select * into’ statements which you can then execute with sp_executesql.

If you want to be really snazzy about it, you could generate ALTER TABLE commands for each table name - select * from columns where table_name = @table_name will get you a lot of information you can use, as would select * from constraints where table_name = @table_name

Of course, you’d need cursors within cursors to iterate through these additional resultsets, but without a terrible amount of work you could replicate a lot more of the MySQL database’s objects in your MS SQL database…

By: Machinista

Machinista — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:19:22 +0000

Maybe it’s because anybody who’s willing to use MySQL and MS SQL (not a hard core fan of, but is willing to use either, depending on the project) knows that you can download a pirated version of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. This edition, of course, does have automated MySQL data and structure import.

Anyways, thanks Lucian.

By: Lucian

Lucian — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:35:46 +0000

I was surprised to see that there is not too much material on the web when I had to do this transition from mysql to sql server express. I’m glad I could be of help.