Re: converting access db to mysql

From: Bolt Upright <BoltUpright_at_BH.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 07:49:47 -0400
Message-ID: <o-GdnTqrKtHTYKfcRVn-ow_at_comcast.com>


Check this link

http://www.convert-in.com/acc2sql.htm

Nerver used it but it looks interesting.

Cheers

"chicha" <mario_at_blindsight.org> wrote in message news:chd16b$jso$1_at_bagan.srce.hr...
> Thanks guys for your replies!
>
> I see now I phrased my post in a completely wrong way.
>
> First of all, what I'm trying to do here is to get some guidance and
> friendly advice to get me started. I HAVE to do this project, I was told
> to. For any of you who read somewhere between my lines "please could
> somebody do this for free instead of me??", I just must stress that that
> was NOT my idea for this post. There are easier and more reliable ways to
> cheat at faculty then using newsgroups...
>
> I'm new with db's but not with PC's. What I should have written is that I
> got the database made in Access 2000 (.MDB) which doesn't work with Access
> 2003. I know this is wrong, and that it should work, but it doesn't. I
> spoke with the author/professor assistant who obviously did it using
> "Databases for dummies" book and he said he's sure it works but has
> bugs(!!!). He doesn't know what bugs though :). That's why he gave me the
> whole thing to put it in mysql. When I tried it in 2003, sure as hell, it
> didn't work, bug or no bug. It opened and loaded, but didn't read
> relations nor data. It works in A2000 because the whole "office of
> construction in mech. eng." at my faculty uses it. I'm not gonna tell that
> guy he did it all wrong, because he knows it. He knows I know it too.
> Saying it loud would mean my academical suicide. I'll rather use Access
> 2000 and fix it there.
>
> I mentioned it in the post because I thought someone could offer an
> advice. My apologies that I haven't explained the situation more
> thoroughly, I thought it was uneccessary. It would save me from you guys
> thinking I'm complete idiot or lousy cheat.
>
> Thanks to all of you guys who provided insightfull info and links, I
> appreciate it. I'll check it out, and see what can be done.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mario
>
>
>
> rkc wrote:
>
>> "chicha" <mario_at_blindsight.org> wrote in message
>> news:chcfuv$n00$1_at_bagan.srce.hr...
>>
>>>Hey people,
>>>
>>>I have to convert MS Access 2000 database into mysql database, the whole
>>>thing being part of this project I'm doing for one of my faculty
>>>classes. My professor somehow presumed I knew db's and gave me long list
>>>of things to do with that particular database, first thing being that
>>>particular conversion. Truth is that I don't know a first thing about
>>>db's, let alone using mysql... I downloaded mysql form www.mysql.com and
>>> still searching for MS Access 2000 (it doesn't work with 2003 I have,
>>>or I don't know how to make it work).
>>>
>>>Any kind of help will be welcomed and highly appreciated!!!
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
Received on Sun Sep 05 2004 - 13:49:47 CEST

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