Yep. That sounds familiar. And some of the auto incrementing features in access don't convert well. Perhaps a more recent conversion package version does a better job these days. This was about 9 years ago.
Ben > On Nov 5, 2013, at 8:20 AM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: > > > Microsoft provide a free migration tool, as you are obviously on windows I > would suggest going with MSSQL and not MySQL > http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=28763 > > the code changes are fairly minimal unless your app is huge, but if memory > serves it is mainly issues with primary keys and TEXT fields to varchar > fields you will have to deal with. > > >> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Ben <b...@webworldinc.com> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Russ >> >> For those of us who have been out of the loop for a while, can you suggest >> easy to implement alternatives to 32 bit MS access? I did a conversion of a >> DB to SQL server some years back and that was painful. >> >> Ben >> >>> On Nov 5, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: >>> >>> >>> well someone has to say it... >>> but why the frack are you still using MSACCESS when there are so many >>> better/free alternatives? >>> you know the Jet driver (which is what you use to connect to MSACCESS) is >>> no longer supported by Microsoft and ha snot been for years and only runs >>> in 32 bit, and as such does not work on modern 64bit OS (without lots of >>> hacking to get it to run in 32bit mode), which is Windows Server 2008 >>> onwards, there is no 32 bit windows any more. >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:44 PM, <> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>> I have robot updaters and inserters too (made all the more robotic >> with >>>> the >>>> help of cfdbinfo figuring out the field types), >>>> >>>> This is what I do, but using my own CFX_ODBCinfo I developped years >> before >>>> cfdbinfo was available, >>>> and I'm still using it because cfdbinfo doesn't work for Access >> databases. >>>> >>>>>> Debugging is miserable with a layer of >>>> code in the middle and straightforward without. >>>> >>>> Right, I think I'm going to improve my CF_INSERT tag by generating the >> SQL >>>> code in the tag. >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:357042 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
