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Transferring Data 'Tween Databases

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-it-around dept.

Sysbotz writes "A common request our company gets is how to get data from Access, Paradox, or some other database format and transfer it to a MySQL database. Well we have written a article on how to do this. W accomplish this task by writing a PHP script to read a database file through ODBC and then to construct a SQL file of the data that can then be read into MySQL. I think some slashdotters would like this."

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  1. As simple minded as the mods letting it pass by Sembiance · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is totally worthless.
    Do mods just let anything with the words 'PHP' and/or 'MySQL' make it on the website?

    The article is less than 2 screen pages long, it's not much more than a code dump, and it's totally hardcoded for a specific and individual database table.

    It also only covers Windows installations of PHP and and person who knows that they need to move from one database to another, and what PHP is, is smart enough to do what this author wrote.

    I don't diss the author on this, it looks as if he is just new to computers and doesn't know any better.
    But geez, if this is the crap that we allow on slashdot now, I'm just gonna start submitting articles on 'How cool Google is'