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MYSQL and Access
Conversion
Are you a small business using MS Access? Do you plan on expanding
your business to facilitate more users and customers? Then you
need to switch to a powerful, robust database. MVI Solutions recommends
switching from MS Access to MySQL as your database.
MySQL gives you all the power and functionality you need, plus it's free! Let the experts
at MVI Solutions help you switch over. MVI Solutions has extensive experience with the MySQL database
and will provide you with the exact solution you need at a price that won't deplete your
budget.
Access to MySQL is a function to move MS Access databases to MySQL server. Depending on your privileges on the target MySQL server you can export MS Access data into new database or overwrite the contents of an existing MySQL database.
Features
- All MS Access data types and attributes are supported
- Works with all versions of Unix and Windows MySQL servers
- Converts indexes with all necessary attributes
- Merges MS Access data into an existing MySQL database
- VServer user's option (see below)
- Converts MS Access databases protected with user-level security
- Exports MS Access databases into a dump file (see below)
- Easy-to-use wizard-style interface
- Full install/uninstall support
Limitations
- Converts MS Access tables only (forms, queries, reports are not supported)
- Does not convert system (hidden) tables
- Does not convert relationships between tables
Requirements
- Windows NT/2000/XP: Windows 2000/XP (or Windows NT 4 with Internet Explorer 5 or later)
- Windows 95/98/Me: Windows 98/ME (or Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 5 or later)
- MS Access 7.0 or higher (ODBC is not required)
- At least 32 MB of available memory
User's option
If you are using Virtual Server hosting you probably have no sufficient privileges to create new databases on the target MySQL server. For this case we recommend the following approach:
Ask your Virtual Server administrator to create a blank database for you. Run Access-to-MySQL and select this database as the conversion target. Click "Yes" when you will be asked if you'd like to overwrite existing MySQL database. When you complete these steps, the entire contents of the source MS Access database will be imported into the specified MySQL database.
MySQL Dump File
Access conversion to MySQL allows users to perform deferred conversion and get more control over the process. The program stores the contents of the source database into a local dump file instead of moving it to MySQL server directly. The resulting file contains MySQL statements to create all tables and to fill them with the data. You will be able to import this file into existing MySQL database via MySQL client.
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