Ruben,
Please clarify your statement. You state that a Cold Fusion solution is bad,
yet you warn to not use anything but ODBC or DBI. However, Cold Fusion is just
a layer on top of ODBC in this case. Although I'm using the Cold Fusion tool,
the solution is being achieved through ODBC.
No one mentioned that a specific problem was happening with Access...and most
will acknowledge that Access is not designed to be a robust, scalable database
(I would have even harsher words for it). I'm not trying to be critical; I
would really like to understand the problem you're speaking of.
Derek
ruben@stripped on 03/23/2000 08:36:00 AM
To: Wickersham_Derek_M@stripped@INTERNET
cc: monty@stripped@INTERNET
myodbc@stripped@INTERNET
mysql@stripped@INTERNET (bcc: Derek M. Wickersham/0A/Caterpillar)
Subject: Re: Converting Access tables to MySQL data on Unix
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Anytime you start with an Access Problem and try to fix it with a Cold
Fusion Solution your in deep dodo.
The issue with Access in the first place is that it's a wholly
inadequate database which is closed sourced and purposefully non
standardized (BROKEN - Did you know you could call a column primary in
Access and that the dating scheme has now changed 3 times in three
releases!!).
If you use anything outside of an ODBC solution or a DBI Solution to
solve this problem, your going to end up with a broken application 3
months down the road when they switch to Access 2000 or Cold Fusion 2001
- a WebSpace Oddity!!
Ruben
Derek M Wickersham wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of converting an Access database to a MySQL database. Cold
> Fusion makes this pretty easy -- here's what I'm doing:
>
> 1) put Cold Fusion on a Windows machine. I believe there's a developer's
> version you can get for free.
>
> 2) install MyODBC on that Windows machine and connect it to the MySQL
database
> on the Unix machine
>
> 3) define the Access database and the MySQL database as datasources in the
Cold
> Fusion administration utility
>
> 4) create the table structures in the mysql client to match the Access table
> structures
>
> 5) use a simple Cold Fusion script with this template:
>
> <cfquery name="getRecs" datasource="AccessDatabase">
> select *
> from TableName
> </cfquery>
>
> <cfloop query="getRecs">
>
> <cfquery name="insertRecs" datasource="MySQLDatabase">
> insert into TableName
> (
> <cfif #getRecs.Field1# IS NOT "">Field1</cfif>
> <cfif #getRecs.Field2# IS NOT "">,Field2</cfif>
> )
> values
> (
> <cfif #getRecs.Field1# IS NOT
> "">,#getRecs.Field1#</cfif>
> <cfif #getRecs.Field2# IS NOT
> "">,'#getRecs.Field2#'</cfif>
>
> )
> </cfquery>
>
> </cfloop>
>
> 6) Alter script for each table and run. Voila!
>
> monty@stripped on 03/22/2000 04:32:00 PM
>
> To: myodbc@stripped@INTERNET
> mysql@stripped@INTERNET
> cc: (bcc: Derek M. Wickersham/0A/Caterpillar)
>
> Subject: Converting Access tables to MySQL data on Unix
> Retain Until: 04/21/2000 Retention Category: G90 - Information and
> Reports
> Caterpillar Confidential: Green
>
> Hi!
>
> A MySQL customer just asked me if anyone has been able to directly
> access rows in a Access97 database file on Unix. If anyone has a
> solution or know a solution (even commercial) of this, please mail me
> about this.
>
> The idea is to, from time to time, copy Access97 datafiles to an Unix
> server and there extract the rows from them and put them into a MySQL
> database.
>
> Regards,
> Monty
>
> PS: I tried to search the email mailing archive before posting..
>
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