Re: Reading Schema From a MSSQL Dump on a Mac (or Linux)

[Stan Iverson]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Johan De Meersman <vegivamp@stripped>wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stan Iverson" <iversonstan@stripped>
> >
> > I have a Mac and a Linux server and I need to read the table schema
> > for a database dump from MSSQL. Possible? How?
>
> Heeh. If you're talking about an SQL dump into a textfile, that should be
> doable - you might have to mess with some datatypes or so, but not
> impossible.
>
> If this is a binary dump, you're going to have to import it into an MS SQL
> server, and proceed from there. MySQL connector for ODBC is one route you
> could take.
>

Yes, it's a binary file; however, MySQL Connector for ODBC only works in
Windows and I'm using a Mac. If no other solutions, will try tomorrow on a
friend's PC.
TIA,
Stan