Thank You. Guess its moot now. We met last night with the owners and told them if we took the site they had to dump billy stuff and go with linux. The only thing I have to convert is the customer base. Ahhh! another linux convert, who cares if it was by force.
On Monday 12 November 2001 22:47, David Aikema wrote: > On Monday 12 November 2001 08:27 am, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: > > Anyone ever convert an access db to sql on linux? Is it doable? > > I've gone from access to mysql-win32 which should be pretty much the same > thing. > > If your database software has odbc drivers you might be able to export the > data directly from access. Otherwise you might try exporting the database > in a comma delimited format, or some other format that your database > software can understand. Failing those two possibilities, you might try > creating a script that'll build the sql statements needed to get the data > in at the other end. > > There are some scripts available to help you with the process I think if > you search around. > > What database software are you hoping to move over to? > What is the size of the database? > > David Aikema > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Ronnie ================== Life can be a dream; or it can be a nightmare it's all in your mind _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
