> its true, the dialect was never written for ASE. It also hasn't been used
> by anyone I'm aware of since the original author submitted it against version
> 0.3 of SQLA. I'm surprised its usable at all at this point.
>
> If you'd like to help us with a real Sybase dialect, it would be targeted
> towards 0.6, which is the current SQLAlchemy trunk. It needs a significant
> amount of work.
I would, but I have very tight deadlines at the moment - so hopefully
I'll get around to this in the new year.
>
> As for the "*=" syntax, which I'm going to have to disagree with you is
> "nicer", you'll have to duplicate the approach in the Oracle driver. Is it
> true that no versions of Sybase support LEFT OUTER JOIN ?
>
I was actually hoping for a simple hack at this point - since the ==
operator is overloaded and you can simply say
table.c.field1==table.c.field2, I was kind of hoping that I could
overload another operator and it would generate a *= or a =* instead
(tight deadlines).
Sybase has annoying left outer join support. ie if you query something
like this:
SELECT yield_curve_1.reference_day,
yield_curve_1.yield_curve_name,
yield_curve_2.yield_curve_name
FROM yield_curve AS yield_curve_1 LEFT OUTER JOIN yield_curve AS
yield_curve_2 ON yield_curve_1.underlying_yield_curve_seqnbr =
yield_curve_2.seqnbr
WHERE yield_curve_1.yield_curve_name IN ('CURVE1', 'CURVE2')
it works as expected . . .
but if you try a correlated left outer join (ie as in the original
post) where you're trying to get the underling underling curve, only
the T-SQL syntax works (I think Sybase was tested thoroughly with T-
SQL and ANSI Joins were put in as an afterthought)
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