[lug] Converting MS-Access to text/MySQL (fwd)

Jeff Schroeder jeff at neobox.net
Mon Apr 14 14:22:24 MDT 2003


Ralf wrote:

> Just for the fun of it i downloaded/compiled the library and run my
> old project against it. The data export went pretty well [1] and it
> does everything i needed back then. So, if exporting or read-only
> access is all you neeed i'd say go for it (the lib comes with an
> unixODBC driver as well).

Thanks (to Daniel too) for the information.  This is *exactly* what I 
needed!  I compiled MDBTools and it works fine.  I'm converting the 
.MDB file into text, and can then post-process it for import into the 
MySQL database.

Jeff



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