[PHP] data move from mssql to mysql via php
I have an app with a requirement to hit an external mssql db and move the data to a local mysql database. What's the best way to do this? I was thinking of querying the mssql db and writing the contents to a flat file then using mysql load data from infile query to pump it in but I am not sure if this is the best option so am looking for suggestions Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] data move from mssql to mysql via php
blackwater dev wrote: I have an app with a requirement to hit an external mssql db and move the data to a local mysql database. What's the best way to do this? I was thinking of querying the mssql db and writing the contents to a flat file then using mysql load data from infile query to pump it in but I am not sure if this is the best option so am looking for suggestions Thanks! You can easily do this; you could also cut out the middleman and use the ODBC driver to import/export directly. HTH Matt Darby -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] data move from mssql to mysql via php
Matt, So would you use an odbc driver and call it directly on the shell? I don't have much access on the server or is this something I can do through php? Thanks! On 10/7/05, Matt Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: blackwater dev wrote: I have an app with a requirement to hit an external mssql db and move the data to a local mysql database. What's the best way to do this? I was thinking of querying the mssql db and writing the contents to a flat file then using mysql load data from infile query to pump it in but I am not sure if this is the best option so am looking for suggestions Thanks! You can easily do this; you could also cut out the middleman and use the ODBC driver to import/export directly. HTH Matt Darby -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] data move from mssql to mysql via php
[snip] So would you use an odbc driver and call it directly on the shell? I don't have much access on the server or is this something I can do through php? [/snip] There is an odbc driver for MySQL http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/odbc-connector.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] data move from mssql to mysql via php
On 10/7/05, blackwater dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So would you use an odbc driver and call it directly on the shell? I don't have much access on the server or is this something I can do through php? Most of the time someone has already been there and done that: http://www.kofler.cc/mysql/mssql2mysql.html -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer MySQL Core Certification http://destiney.com/
Re: [PHP] data move from mssql to mysql via php
On Fri, October 7, 2005 8:31 am, blackwater dev wrote:
I have an app with a requirement to hit an external mssql db and move
the data to a local mysql database. What's the best way to do this?
I was thinking of querying the mssql db and writing the contents to a
flat file then using mysql load data from infile query to pump it in
but I am not sure if this is the best option so am looking for
suggestions
If one or the other database servers allows access from other than
'localhost', you can simply have two connections open, one to each db,
and XFer data in a single PHP script.
?php
$mssql = mssql_connect('whatever', ...);
$mysql = mysql_connect('whatever', ...);
$query = 'select ... from ;
$result = mssql_query($query, $mssql);
while ($row = mssql_fetch_row($result)){
$query = insert into ... values( . implode(', ', $row) . );
mysql_query($query, $mysql);
}
?
Obviously you'd need a ton of error-checking etc.
This would be, perhaps, better than dump/load if you also need to do
some business logic in there to determine which records have changed
where, and which should or should not get re-loaded etc.
Would also be handy if you need to run this script often to syncronize
the two.
But if it's a one-time dump, then presumably SQL Server can be
convinced to dump out a flat-file that you can load into MySQL as you
originally intended -- That's probably gonna be fastest/easiest for a
one-time deal.
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