SQL-Server and MySQL interoperability?

Question

We\'re going from a SQL-Server 2008 backend to a MySQL backend. What\'s the interoperability between SQL-Server and MySQL?

Will we be able to run SQL Queries that r

Answer 1

It is possible to add a MySQL server into SQL Server as a linked server.

• HOWTO: Setup SQL Server Linked Server to MySQL

Once you have set it up you can query using OPENQUERY like this:

SELECT t1.colA, t2.colB
FROM SQLdbName.dbo.tablename AS t1
INNER JOIN OPENQUERY(MySQLlinkedservername, 
                     'SELECT colA, colB FROM tablename') AS t2
ON t1.colA = t2.colA