Question

I’ve written my website using ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server (used a SQL Server instance which ran locally on my machine).

I’m about to upload my site to a hosting provider. However, his DB works under MySQL. I don’t care about the data already in the DB itself. It’s mostly mock data and a few tables which I don’t mind rewriting. But how do I go about the transition from SQL Server to MySQL? How does this influence my queries inside my code? is it the same code syntax? Will I have to recreate the table definitions? In my project I used LINQ to SQL.

Am I forced to look for a host with SQL Server capabilities (i.e. licenses)? (I hope not…)

Thanks!

Answer 1

LINQ to SQL works with MS SQL Server only…so if you want to keep using it, you need to find a host with a MSSQL database.