Re: Access database conversion

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:08 -0700, Carlton Brooks wrote:
> About 12 years ago I created an MS Access database for a historical
> society to maintain their collection of material.
> They would now like to make the information available on the 4 pc units
> in their office instead of the one it is currently housed on.
> I thought that if I set up their server as a dual boot box, converted
> the access database to mysql, that they could run this as a local host
> from the web browser.
>
> First off is this feasible, second I have found software on sourceforge
> to convert the access database to mysql. But the biggest hang up is in
> converting the forms and structure already created. Is there a program
> that will convert the forms and output data so that a minimal amount of
> work is required to set it up.
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The Windows version of openoffice.org is capable of opening/converting
the data into openoffice.org Base application - which then could use the
data from another SQL store like mysql.

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Craig White <craig@tobyhouse.com>

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