Re: looking for db recommendation

If you install and use PhpMyAdmin you can easily import a CSV I assume you can export from access in that format.

I searched on "import CSV into mysql" and found a few sites that looked helpful.  You would be doing so on the command line if you follow these tutorials.

Search this page for CSV  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html  and you will see the following.

 LOAD DATA INFILE can be used to read files obtained from external sources. For example, many programs can export data in comma-separated values (CSV) format, such that lines have fields separated by commas and enclosed within double quotes. If lines in such a file are terminated by newlines, the statement shown here illustrates the field- and line-handling options you would use to load the file:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.txt' INTO TABLE tbl_name
  FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'
  LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';

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I hope this helps.


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Keith Smith



--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@cox.net> wrote:

From: Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@cox.net>
Subject: Re: looking for db recommendation
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 12:02 PM

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

> 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 ...

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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