Thanks, Carl! Ben
> On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Carl Von Stetten <vonner.li...@vonner.net> wrote: > > > If you move to MSSQL 2008 or newer, the varchar(MAX) nicely replaces the > Access TEXT data type. If you use the SQL Server import tools rather > than the Access migration tools, you should be able to do "identity > insert on" on auto increment columns and preserve their values. > > -Carl V. >> On 11/5/2013 7:27 AM, Ben wrote: >> Yep. That sounds familiar. And some of the auto incrementing features in >> access don't convert well. Perhaps a more recent conversion package version >> does a better job these days. This was about 9 years ago. >> >> Ben >> >>> On Nov 5, 2013, at 8:20 AM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Microsoft provide a free migration tool, as you are obviously on windows I >>> would suggest going with MSSQL and not MySQL >>> http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=28763 >>> >>> the code changes are fairly minimal unless your app is huge, but if memory >>> serves it is mainly issues with primary keys and TEXT fields to varchar >>> fields you will have to deal with. >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Ben <b...@webworldinc.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Russ >>>> >>>> For those of us who have been out of the loop for a while, can you suggest >>>> easy to implement alternatives to 32 bit MS access? I did a conversion of a >>>> DB to SQL server some years back and that was painful. >>>> >>>> Ben >>>> >>>>> On Nov 5, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> well someone has to say it... >>>>> but why the frack are you still using MSACCESS when there are so many >>>>> better/free alternatives? >>>>> you know the Jet driver (which is what you use to connect to MSACCESS) is >>>>> no longer supported by Microsoft and ha snot been for years and only runs >>>>> in 32 bit, and as such does not work on modern 64bit OS (without lots of >>>>> hacking to get it to run in 32bit mode), which is Windows Server 2008 >>>>> onwards, there is no 32 bit windows any more. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:44 PM, <> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have robot updaters and inserters too (made all the more robotic >>>> with >>>>>> the >>>>>> help of cfdbinfo figuring out the field types), >>>>>> >>>>>> This is what I do, but using my own CFX_ODBCinfo I developped years >>>> before >>>>>> cfdbinfo was available, >>>>>> and I'm still using it because cfdbinfo doesn't work for Access >>>> databases. >>>>>>>> Debugging is miserable with a layer of >>>>>> code in the middle and straightforward without. >>>>>> >>>>>> Right, I think I'm going to improve my CF_INSERT tag by generating the >>>> SQL >>>>>> code in the tag. >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:357049 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
