From: Martijn Tonies Date: June 16 2008 6:55am Subject: Re: MS SQL to MySQL select List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/213363 Message-Id: <004a01c8cf7e$01586ba0$9902a8c0@martijnws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, > In order for me to achive the goal of migrating a MS SQL based application > to web based php / mysql I need to understand a little bit MS SQL syntax and > MySQL counterpart expression. If is not too much to ask one of you guys > could "translate" this MS SQL select to MySQL? Here's the challenge: Yes, that is too much. This is a very basic query, if you cannot translate it yourself, I wish you good luck on your conversion project. Is there anything -specific- that you want to have translated here? Would it help if I said that this query prefixes each object with its owner (dbo) and for MySQL you should remove that? eg: create view equipos ... select ... OBJETOSPATRIMONIO.objpatCodigo ... from `01 LOCALIZACIONES OBJETOSPATRIM` INNER JOIN ... Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - development tool for MySQL, and more! Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com My thoughts: http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/ Database development questions? Check the forum! http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com > CREATE VIEW dbo.equipos > AS > SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT dbo.OBJETOSPATRIMONIO.objpatCodigo AS Expr1, > dbo.OBJETOSPATRIMONIO.objpatDenom AS Expr2, > dbo.OBJETOSPATRIMONIO.objpatEstadoTec AS Expr3, > dbo.ESTRUCTURAPATRIMONIO.clsnodopatID, > dbo.[01 LOCALIZACIONES OBJETOSPATRIM].Localizacion > FROM dbo.[01 LOCALIZACIONES OBJETOSPATRIM] INNER JOIN > dbo.OBJETOSPATRIMONIO ON dbo.[01 LOCALIZACIONES > OBJETOSPATRIM].objpatID = dbo.OBJETOSPATRIMONIO.objpatID INNER JOIN > dbo.OBJETOSPATRIMEQUIPOS ON > dbo.OBJETOSPATRIMONIO.objpatID = dbo.OBJETOSPATRIMEQUIPOS.equipID INNER JOIN > dbo.ESTRUCTURAPATRIMONIO ON > dbo.OBJETOSPATRIMONIO.objpatNodoEnlazID = > dbo.ESTRUCTURAPATRIMONIO.nodopatrimID > ORDER BY dbo.OBJETOSPATRIMONIO.objpatCodigo > > > Really appreciate your help! Thanks!