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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. Is this really worthy of a /. article? by herrlich_98 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Summary: to get data from a db to MySQL use PHP to read the db and print out a MySQL script that loads all the data.

    It is nice to highlight that you can read lots of different databases using odbc in PHP, but still.

    This basic concept is obvious to anyone with familiarity with MySQL. I mean, come on, "pick a language that can read the database in question and use it to dump the data into a format that can be read my MySQL".

    This program could have been written in Visual Basic or C# or anything that can read the database you want to convert.

    A more interesting PHP program that could have taken *any* two arbitrary odbc databases (MySQL can be accessed through odbc) and dumped table definitions and data from one db to the other.