John Fabiani wrote:
> On Thursday, October 28, 2010 06:15:25 am Paul McNett wrote:
>
>> On 10/28/10 2:24 AM, Fraser Burns wrote:
>>
>>> We have need to extract the info out of a proprietry database and
>>> transfer it to MySQL. Because the are quite a number of tables we want
>>> to dynamically extract the field names from the existing base(they are
>>> stored inside the file) and allocate those same names to the create
>>> stage and then loading the data in.
>>>
> It's not to hard to write a Dabo database interface. If there is a DB-API
> 2.0
> interface to the database then the Dabo interface can be written. There are
> special cases out there that may prove a problem (recent pymssql comes to
> mind). But in general it is not to hard.
>
> So what is the proprietry database in question?
>
> Johnf
>
>
They are saved as *.pdb and *.pnx files. Not finding anything to match
up to them, we have already spent the time and learnt how they are
assembled. So extraction has had the back broken.
The other databases we often need to interact with are Paradox, and
there doesn't seem to be much there either.
-- Fraser Burns
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