Am 18. Apr, 2006 schwätzte Nathan England so: > Is there an easy way to import the access tables, columns and records? Or are > you talking by hand? Because I'm talking about maybe 50 different databases > each with probably 1000 rows each. They are not small access databases. This Do you mean 1000 tables each? 50k rows is nothing :). > is something I am entirely excited about doing by hand and certainly not > something they will allow at all! > > Unfortunately, I really know nothing about access. Sometimes ignorance is bliss :). Could they use access via wine/crossover? There are tools for migrating from one db to another. Don't know how many of those count access as a db. If GNU enterprise handles access, which it should, we've got a couple of GNUe guys in town. One leaves in a couple of weeks, but I think he's looking to start doing more consulting. Do you just need the data transitioned or do you also need scripts built on access and a similar frontend? BTW, see about getting them all to move to OO.o2 and other Free Software tools on their m$ boxen. Using Firefox and Thunderbird will solve many of the security problems. There's a FF module to use the eXploder rendering engine when necessary. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ # Join the League of Professional System Administrators! https://LOPSA.org/ # Hope has two beautiful daughters: Anger and Courage. Anger at the way # things are, and Courage to struggle to create things as they should be. # -- St. Augustine