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' );

Translating a stored procedure

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