[KLUG Members] MySQL acting as if it is SQL Server

[bill]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 10:57, Michael Lueck wrote:
> Tap tap, this thing still on... or did someone kill off KLUG?
> 
> Anyway, for the MySQL experts on the list, have they come up with capabilities
> that one can drop in a MySQL / Linux box and have SQL Server clients / apps
> talk to it not knowing they are talking to OSS/FS?
> 
> Anyone have success taking sucky vendor Windows app written to use SQL Server
> and successfully swapped in a MySQL back end?

Haven't done it myself, we've always re-written the app.  But if I had
to do it I'd look into ODBC.  If the client can issue db calls via ODBC,
it should be able to issue them to MySQL using that method.  

kind regards,

bill


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