Question

I have been tasked with converting a SQL Server database into a MySQL 5.* database.
I feel well-read up about converting between datatypes.

However, I read that MySQL does ANSI, not T-SQL, and doesn’t support cursors.
My question is, what am I supposed to do with all of my SQL Server functions and sprocs (some of which use cursors) ?

I want to “do it the right way” .

Do I move them all to code like SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM ...", con");, do I move them to MySQL’s procedure-things, should I try jQuery, or LINQ, or … ?

The front end will be in ASP.NET still, but there is a possibility we might rewrite/move it to PHP.

Answer 1

I don’t think jQuery is going to help, but you may be able to do without the SPROCS entirely if you move to LINQ. Since I started using LINQ as my (lightweight) ORM, I rarely use an SPROC.