looking for db recommendation

[Jerry Davis]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:29:21 -0700
Mike Schwartz <mike.l.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 AM, mz <mz at infomagic.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm migrating from M$ WinXP to openSUSE 11.0. At the moment I'm looking
> > for a db for simple personal use.
> >
> > I have a music collection db in M$ Access. There are about 1900 records
> > w/ six variables. The collection is mostly vinyl LPs (i.e., entered by
> > hand) with another 2000 LPs not yet in the db. If possible, I'd like
> > to do a simple import w/ minimal clean up to avoid re-entering the
> > existing records.
> >
> > What are the recommendations for a db and how best to accomplish the
> > migration?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Mark Z.
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> 
> > how best to accomplish the migration?
> 
> Even M$ Access can output ("export"?)
>    data in the format of a CSV file, right?
>    (comma separated values)
> That should be all you need, to "import"
>    to your destination db -- MySql or whatever.
> 
> And (IANA Db admin, but) I think any good db
>    should be able to "import" a CSV file (right?)
>    ...if not, then you might want to get a
>    "second opinion", on the
> 
> > recommendations for a db
> just my 0.02 ...

postgresql or mysql would be my choice.
i'm sure both have an import.
if not, a very short perl dbi script would do it nicely.

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