Comments on: Differences between MySQL and MS SQL http://raivoratsep.com/26/differences-between-mysql-and-ms-sql/ Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:47:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: php trivandrum http://raivoratsep.com/26/differences-between-mysql-and-ms-sql/comment-page-1/#comment-11 php trivandrum Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:08:46 +0000 http://raivoratsep.com/?p=26#comment-11 In the past weeks, we at Saturn SPL [http://www.saturn.in] were also passing through the nightmare of porting an application which was developed with just MySQL in view to MSSQL and php on IIS. Read about the frustration I felt at the start of the migration [ http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/migration-from-mysql-to-mssql-our-solutions/ ], and the solutions which I stitched into our application for keeping the code as such while providing the MSSQL for the specified version [http://www.php-trivandrum.org/code-snippets/migration-from-mysql-to-mssql-our-solutions-continued/], thanks to all those who have written about the differences. In the past weeks, we at Saturn SPL [http://www.saturn.in] were also passing through the nightmare of porting an application which was developed with just MySQL in view to MSSQL and php on IIS. Read about the frustration I felt at the start of the migration [ http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/migration-from-mysql-to-mssql-our-solutions/ ], and the solutions which I stitched into our application for keeping the code as such while providing the MSSQL for the specified version [http://www.php-trivandrum.org/code-snippets/migration-from-mysql-to-mssql-our-solutions-continued/], thanks to all those who have written about the differences.

]]> By: Kevin Korb http://raivoratsep.com/26/differences-between-mysql-and-ms-sql/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Kevin Korb Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:02:22 +0000 http://raivoratsep.com/?p=26#comment-10 Another thing I noticed is using double-quotes tends to make the query barf, for example: SELECT * FROM Product WHERE name="test" is perfectly fine in MySQL, however MSSQL it NEEDS to be: SELECT * FROM Product WHERE name = 'test' Typically you'd bind the parameters, but sometimes you might do queries directly on the DB for admin purposes, so you might just write out the values... Another thing I noticed is using double-quotes tends to make the query barf, for example:

SELECT * FROM Product WHERE name=”test” is perfectly fine in MySQL, however MSSQL it NEEDS to be:

SELECT * FROM Product WHERE name = ‘test’

Typically you’d bind the parameters, but sometimes you might do queries directly on the DB for admin purposes, so you might just write out the values…

]]> By: Joe http://raivoratsep.com/26/differences-between-mysql-and-ms-sql/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Joe Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:04:59 +0000 http://raivoratsep.com/?p=26#comment-9 Isn't it crazy? I was floored when I first tried to do a LIMIT x,y in MSSQL and found out I had to use TOP, or crazy sub-queries or stored procedures just to fetch items 21-40, etc. MSSQL is very powerful and is a great database, but could certainly learn a lot from MySQL at the same time. Isn’t it crazy? I was floored when I first tried to do a LIMIT x,y in MSSQL and found out I had to use TOP, or crazy sub-queries or stored procedures just to fetch items 21-40, etc. MSSQL is very powerful and is a great database, but could certainly learn a lot from MySQL at the same time.

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