ASA SQL User's Guide
  Transact-SQL Compatibility

Automatic translation of stored procedures

In addition to supporting Transact-SQL alternative syntax, Adaptive Server Anywhere provides aids for translating statements between the Watcom-SQL and Transact-SQL dialects. Functions returning information about SQL statements and enabling automatic translation of SQL statements include:

• SQLDialect(statement)    Returns Watcom-SQL or Transact-SQL.

• WatcomSQL(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:

select SqlDialect('select * from employee')

returns the value Watcom-SQL.

Using Sybase Central to translate stored procedures