Re: COnversion from Btrieve to MySQL

2001-06-27 Thread Sinisa Milivojevic

Marchetti, Peter writes:
 
 Has anyone ever attempted, or succeded in converting a Btrieve database to a
 MySQL database?
 
 Peter Marchetti
 Media Visions, Inc.
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 

You will have to make CREATE TABLE statements yourself.

For the data use butil to get comma delimited file. You will have to
use sed to fix it, like adding quotes, escaping binary data etc, and
then on MySQL side you can use LOAD DATA.

Lot's of work !

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COnversion from Btrieve to MySQL

2001-06-26 Thread Marchetti, Peter


Has anyone ever attempted, or succeded in converting a Btrieve database to a
MySQL database?

Peter Marchetti
Media Visions, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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