On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 03:55, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have a large quantity of data collected over a long time in Lotus Approach
> databases. These are in many respects like Access, I think, with Lotus
> Approach supplying the front-end, relational engine, forms designer and query
> tools which act on .dbf database tables. I have opened one of the tables
> successfully in StarCalc, so I know they are readable.
>
> I want to migrate these files to linux - at present I'm using Win4Lin to
> access them. MySQL looks over the top for a single user app, and as far as I
> can see Katabase is still in early development. I have done a tiny bit of
> SQL work, so the idea doesn't panic me, but I wonder if it is the best
> solution. Has anyone any comments?
>
> Anne
Personally I would export the data to csv and then import it into a new
MySQL database. There are heaps of GUI controllers/tools/administrative
navigators for MySQL - and you could quite easily create a front end
from either PHP, KOffice, OO or SO...
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