On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:24:49AM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote: > Rainer Giedat wrote: > >Hi Stuart, > > > >On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 04:59:21PM -0500, stuartv wrote: > >>This project is all part of my devious plan to gradually > >>convert to an all (or at least mostly) OpenBSD environment > >>here at work (psst... don't tell my boss). If this pans out, > >>I think replacing our SQL server with MySQL on an OpenBSD box > >>will be the next big conquest. :) > >I would not do that if i were you. It does not matter if you > >use MySQL or PostgreSQL or any other. Changeing the backend > >for MSAccess is a pain in the a**, especially if you have > >frontends written in VisualBasic (dudes checking for -1 instead > >of false...). You will become at least problems > >with compatibility of the data types. > > > >/dev/rainer > > > > But that is exactly what we _did_ do at work. We moved from MS Access > to PostgreSQL seamlessly by using psqlodbc. That let us put our data in > a real database, eliminated all of the data corruption problems we were > having with Access, and let our users continue to use the forms and > whatnot that they were used to while we coded up a web front end (using > php, to throw a comment out there to another thread running on misc@). If you had data corruption, you had a reason to change it. Stuart seemed like he wants to do it only to get rid of the windows boxes.
> The boolean problem mentioned above is a checkbox in the ODBC driver > configs--not a very big PITA compared to supporting Access! I know. It was only the first example which came to my mind.. I had to change a lot of code to get it running. I also had stability problems with psqlodbc. When did you do that? Maybe psqlodbc is better now... > Jeff Rainer
