Tim Uckun wrote:
>
> >>hi,
> >>can anyone help me ? i need to convert a ms access .mdb file into
> >>somthing readable so i can insert it into my postgreSQL db...
> >>does anyone have any experiance? (preferably using PHP)
> >>Robert Korteweg
> >>The Netherlands
>
> Here is your steps.
> 1) Create your destination table in postgres
> 2) Export your data to a comma delimeted format
> 3) save this perl script to a file
Good script.
But, if you have the PostgreSQL ODBC driver installed on the windows
machine, you can use Access's SaveAs/Export function to save it directly
into a PostgreSQL table. Although, that might be overkill for this, I
do this quite alot (did it five times today to get some data over to the
real RDBMS.....).
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Lamar Owen
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