Is it possible to link tables from other databases (MS SQL, Sybase, etc.) inside a MySQL database, on a Debian server?
I am thinking this could be possible using ODBC.
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Is it possible to link tables from other databases (MS SQL, Sybase, etc.) inside a MySQL database, on a Debian server?
I am thinking this could be possible using ODBC.
Out of the box, I don’t think so.
AFAIK, while its possible to implement your own functions in MySQL, these can only return single values – not tables of data.
It should be possible using a custom storage engine plugin. I believe there’s one written for DB2 but a quick google turned up nothing for ODBC. It’d be a useful thing to have – so you could write one.
The only caveat is that neither the local MySQL nor the remote ODBC connected database would be able to optimise queries spanning engines properly – so it might be more efficient to handle the two systems in a progrmanning language which supports both.