[Maria-discuss] Is there something like "best practices" to migrate from Paradox to MariaDB?

2016-02-16 Thread Hugo Wau
Hello, I am new here. I will have to migrate some hundred Paradox Databases (on as many machines) to MariaDB. The best way to do so, would be something like a script. My OSs are Linux (Debian) and Win7. Is there some kind of documentation of the experience of someone, who has migrated from Para

Re: [Maria-discuss] Is there something like "best practices" to migrate from Paradox to MariaDB?

2016-02-17 Thread Ian Gilfillan
There seem to be a few scripts available for migrating from Paradox to MySQL, and these should work with MariaDB. No idea how reliable any of them are though - if you come across anything useful, feel free to share, or to create a page on our Knowledge Base. On 16/02/2016 23:25, Hugo Wau wrote: >

Re: [Maria-discuss] Is there something like "best practices" to migrate from Paradox to MariaDB?

2016-02-17 Thread Peter Laursen
Windows ships with a (32 bit) ODBC driver for Paradox. There are several tools that may migrate from external ODBC sources to MySQL/MariaDB I of course recommend our own SQLYog. As far as I understand from discussions bugs.mysql.com, (Oracle) MySQL Workbench will not work with MariaDB anymore (bu

Re: [Maria-discuss] Is there something like "best practices" to migrate from Paradox to MariaDB?

2016-02-17 Thread Peter Laursen
BTW: as an ODBC driver exists, I believe you can also connect to your Paradox database file with the "connect engine" in MariaDB and simply copy tables to normal (InnoDB etc) MySQL/MariaDB. tables using "CREATE TABLE .. AS SELECT * FROM .." or similar. But one more disclamer. I never used the Conn

Re: [Maria-discuss] Is there something like "best practices" to migrate from Paradox to MariaDB?

2016-02-17 Thread Peter Laursen
Hmmm - I probably overlooked one detail. To use the Connect engine with a 32 bit ODBC driver I think the server should be a 32 bit server. So you may then want to migrate the data to a 64 bit server as 2nd step. SQLyog (32 bit) can use the 32-bit driver and migrate data to a 64 bit server directly

Re: [Maria-discuss] Is there something like "best practices" to migrate from Paradox to MariaDB?

2016-02-17 Thread Justin Swanhart
Hi, You can always migrate to mysql then drop mariadb in on top. That is the great thing about being a drop-in replacement. --Justin On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Peter Laursen wrote: > Windows ships with a (32 bit) ODBC driver for Paradox. There are several > tools that may migrate from

Re: [Maria-discuss] Is there something like "best practices" to migrate from Paradox to MariaDB?

2016-02-17 Thread Peter Mclarty
Hi Hugo You might want to look at something like Talends Data Integration Tool - You should be able to use either the Generic JDBC or ODBC connector to connect to the paradox data and then the MySQL Connection works very well with mySQL drivers to connect to the Mariadb database. Well worth the

Re: [Maria-discuss] Is there something like "best practices" to migrate from Paradox to MariaDB?

2016-02-22 Thread Hugo Wau
Hello Ian, I am still searching. My first thought would be, to have each user produce a clear cut backup of his total database. This would result in a lot of .db (and some .mb) files, which then are exported (via .CSV) to be filled into the respective MariaDB tables. Probably I can use pxlib (i