On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 AM, mz <mz@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 ...
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz@acm.org