This is actually common. I have to webify some data that's coming from SQL Server in another agency. Right now they're distributing a daily snapshot as an Access database, but I'm told the admins can produce whatever format we want (CSV, JSON, SQLite). (I'll be using either Postgres or SQLite depending on the size of the data; I just need an open interchange format.)
It's funny to think of SQL Server using Access as an export format, but since they're both Microsoft techonogies it's not really surprising. On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:27 PM, David Goldsmith <[email protected]> wrote: > I almost hate to say it, 'cause this is the most action on a single > (non-logistical) topic I've seen on this list in a long time: I was > wrong (due to my DB ignorance)--the DB is SQL Server based, I'm just > using Access as a front end. > > DG > > -- > > In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a > really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would > actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them > again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, > because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it > happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that > happened in politics or religion. > > - Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP address > -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
