I need to convert the following stored procedure of SQL Server to MySQL. I am new to MySQL.
CREATE PROC InsertGenerator
(@tableName varchar(100)) as
--Declare a cursor to retrieve column specific information
--for the specified table
DECLARE cursCol CURSOR FAST_FORWARD FOR
SELECT column_name,data_type FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE table_name = @tableName
OPEN cursCol
DECLARE @string nvarchar(3000)
--for storing the first half
--of INSERT statement
DECLARE @stringData nvarchar(3000)
--for storing the data
--(VALUES) related statement
DECLARE @dataType nvarchar(1000) --data types returned
--for respective columns
SET @string='INSERT '+@tableName+'('
SET @stringData=''
DECLARE @colName nvarchar(50)
FETCH NEXT FROM cursCol INTO @colName,@dataType
IF @@fetch_status<>0
begin
print 'Table '+@tableName+' not found, processing skipped.'
close curscol
deallocate curscol
return
END
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN
IF @dataType in ('varchar','char','nchar','nvarchar')
BEGIN
SET @stringData=@stringData+'''''''''+
isnull('+@colName+','''')+'''''',''+'
END
ELSE
if @dataType in ('text','ntext')
--if the datatype
--is text or something else
BEGIN
SET @stringData=@stringData+'''''''''+
isnull(cast('+@colName+' as varchar(2000)),'''')+'''''',''+'
END
ELSE
IF @dataType = 'money' --because money doesn't get converted
--from varchar implicitly
BEGIN
SET @stringData=@stringData+'''convert(money,''''''+
isnull(cast('+@colName+' as varchar(200)),''0.0000'')+''''''),''+'
END
ELSE
IF @dataType='datetime'
BEGIN
SET @stringData=@stringData+'''convert(datetime,''''''+
isnull(cast('+@colName+' as varchar(200)),''0'')+''''''),''+'
END
ELSE
IF @dataType='image'
BEGIN
SET @stringData=@stringData+'''''''''+
isnull(cast(convert(varbinary,'+@colName+')
as varchar(6)),''0'')+'''''',''+'
END
ELSE
--presuming the data type is int,bit,numeric,decimal
BEGIN
SET @stringData=@stringData+'''''''''+
isnull(cast('+@colName+' as varchar(200)),''0'')+'''''',''+'
END
SET @string=@string+@colName+','
FETCH NEXT FROM cursCol INTO @colName,@dataType
END
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/stored-routines-syntax.html This link contains the documentation on creating stored procedures and functions in MySql. You have quite a lot of code there so it may come down to 6 of 1 and half dozen of the other.