Re: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-27 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I went to Mysql's site to download the migration toolkit. There were lots of warnings about it being deprecated and to use the new Workbench software. The workbench software doesn't seem to have a migration toolkit built into it. Plus, the links I could find were only windows versions. On

Re: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Actually the access export worked very easy, using the ODBC driver provided by MySQL. I already had MySQL on my machine here. I went to the Access db and selected the tables I wanted to put into MySQL. next I right clicked on the table and selected export then ODBC Databases() in the dropdown. The

Re: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-27 Thread denstar
My cfddlutils tag does the same thing, but in one line, so there. :)P -- The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. Meister Eckhart On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > found a sweet solution. > > It's a ruby gem, yaml_db. > > 1.) Had to cr

Re: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-26 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
found a sweet solution. It's a ruby gem, yaml_db. 1.) Had to create a blank rails project. 2.) Edit database.yml to point to the source db 3.) run rake db:dump 4.) edit database.yml to point to the new db 5.) run rake db:load Voila! done. One of the cool things is that it converts it to a

Re: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-23 Thread Larry C. Lyons
use teh ODBC driver for MSSQL. that has worked so far. On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:05 PM, denstar wrote: > > I was pretty impressed last time I used it, which was a while ago. > > Here's to hoping that it does ODBC as well!  :) > > :DeN > > -- > When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosop

Re: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-23 Thread denstar
I was pretty impressed last time I used it, which was a while ago. Here's to hoping that it does ODBC as well! :) :DeN -- When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. Diogene

Re: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-23 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Denster you beat me to it. I just did a huge conversion recently from M$SQL Server to MySQL using the My SQL Migration toolkit. Fast simple and smooth. Next challenge M$ Access to MySQL. On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:30 PM, denstar wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:

Re: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-23 Thread denstar
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > trying to move a bunch of tables from mssql to mysql.  Anyone know of a > converter that easy and preferable cheap or free? The MySQL data migration toolkit fsck'n ROCKS! It'll do it bad-assly. Haven't played with the latest version

Re: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-23 Thread Robert Munn
ESF Database Migration Toolkit http://www.easyfrom.net/ a single user license is $219. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > trying to move a bunch of tables from mssql to mysql. Anyone know of a > converter that easy and preferable che

RE: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-23 Thread Scott Raley
When I did this I just saved the mssql database to a sql file and ran that in the query window of mysql-front. -Original Message- From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 1:42 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: mssql to mysql recommendations I use

Re: mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-22 Thread Maureen
I use SQLYog. I have the enterprise version, for which a 30 day free trial is available. And read this first: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/migrating-from-microsoft.html On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > trying to move a bunch of tables from mssql to

mssql to mysql recommendations

2010-01-22 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
trying to move a bunch of tables from mssql to mysql. Anyone know of a converter that easy and preferable cheap or free? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusio