Question

I have a model that was generated for MySQL 5 but now I need to create these tables on a SQL Server installation.

It’s been years since I mucked with SQL server and I want to make sure I can convert this script to be compatible.

I don’t really know what to look for TBQH, so without further ado, here’s my MySQL DDL

CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS `bof_survey` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE default collation ;
USE `bof_survey`;

-- -----------------------------------------------------
-- Table `bof_survey`.`question`
-- -----------------------------------------------------
CREATE  TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `bof_survey`.`question` (
  `id` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
  `text` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL ,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`) )
ENGINE = InnoDB;


-- -----------------------------------------------------
-- Table `bof_survey`.`category`
-- -----------------------------------------------------
CREATE  TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `bof_survey`.`category` (
  `id` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
  `name` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL ,
  `adverb` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL ,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`) )
ENGINE = InnoDB;


-- -----------------------------------------------------
-- Table `bof_survey`.`answer`
-- -----------------------------------------------------
CREATE  TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `bof_survey`.`answer` (
  `id` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
  `question_id` INT UNSIGNED NULL ,
  `category_id` INT UNSIGNED NULL ,
  `text` VARCHAR(60) NULL ,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ,
  INDEX `fk_answer_question` (`question_id` ASC) ,
  INDEX `fk_answer_category1` (`category_id` ASC) ,
  CONSTRAINT `fk_answer_question`
    FOREIGN KEY (`question_id` )
    REFERENCES `bof_survey`.`question` (`id` )
    ON DELETE NO ACTION
    ON UPDATE NO ACTION,
  CONSTRAINT `fk_answer_category1`
    FOREIGN KEY (`category_id` )
    REFERENCES `bof_survey`.`category` (`id` )
    ON DELETE NO ACTION
    ON UPDATE NO ACTION)
ENGINE = InnoDB;

Answer 1

One way of getting started is to load your DDL into a MySQL database and then use mysqldump --compatible=mssql to re-dump it. That should get you started — and from there on it may be going through the T-SQL docs and asking here on a case-by-case basis.

In addition, Microsoft has some resources, such as this article (for SQL Server 2000, but it could help mapping the data types correctly).