Has anyone come across / written a script that will convert one "flavor" or Dialect of SQL to another? I need to convert Visual FoxPro 6.0 style WHERE clauses to MySQL. For the most part the problems are converting VFP functions to the equivalent SQL. For example, Visual FoxPro has a function inlist() that is used like inlist(X,1,2,3) which converts to the MySQL query "X IN (1,2,3)". That's easy enough (relatively speaking) but VFP also has stuff like "EMPTY(X)" where any of Null, the Empty String (for Char), 0000-00-00 (or the VFP equivalent anyways for dates), False (for Boolean), 0 (for Numeric) are considered empty without needing to know the data type. So that starts getting a lot more complex since I'd need to check the data type of the field in the "right" table... to be able to convert it to something like (X is null OR X="") or (X is null OR x=0) etc... These are for customer "stored" queries... I've already manually converted "system" queries and I'm frustrated to the point of giving up and adding a column "untested" and let the end user figure it out but that seems bad from the standpoint of "lazy" and "poor customer experience". Thanks! Matt P.S. I'm also going to post this to the MySQL general list but my fear is that they MIGHT say "We only know MySQL so we can't help you with that other DBMS" I'm hoping that by posting here someone might say "well it's not to MySQL but I ran script XYZ to convert my VFP to PostgreSQL..." or similar. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
