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Hello, I need help in migrating old VB6-classic asp application.
This application uses ADO Data Shaping Query like below and this query can not be executed through SQL server management studio. I want to transform this query to normal query which can get executed on SQL server management studio or use this SHape query in stored procedure
SHAPE {SELECT CustomerID, ContactName FROM Customers} APPEND ({SELECT OrderID, OrderDate, CustomerID FROM Orders} AS chapOrders RELATE customerID TO customerID)
If the tables were copied to SQL Server, check this query in Management Studio:
select c.CustomerID, c.ContactName, o.OrderID, o.OrderDate
from Customers c
inner join Orders o on o.CustomerID = c.CustomerID
@Viorel It was sample sql. But i have more complex query which have multiple child tables, multiple shape statement in one query
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Shape is an Access database feature that returned hierarchical record sets. SqlServer is a pure relational engine and only returns sets (expect for xml or json results).
you probably want to look an ORM like entity framework which maps sets into hierarchies.