Automatic translation of stored procedures

In addition to supporting Transact-SQL alternative syntax, SQL Anywhere provides aids for translating statements between the Watcom SQL and Transact-SQL dialects. SQL language built-in functions returning information about SQL statements and enabling automatic translation of SQL statements include:

  • SQLDialect(statement)   Returns Watcom-SQL or Transact-SQL.

  • Watcom SQL(statement)   Returns the Watcom-SQL syntax for the statement.

  • TransactSQL(statement)   Returns the Transact-SQL syntax for the statement.

These are functions, and so can be accessed using a select statement from Interactive SQL. For example, the following statement returns the value Watcom-SQL: 

SELECT SQLDialect( 'SELECT * FROM Employees' );

Using Sybase Central to translate stored procedures

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