Re: Re: MS Access data to PostgrSQL data - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Lamar Owen
Subject Re: Re: MS Access data to PostgrSQL data
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Msg-id 3A675148.44610CA5@wgcr.org
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In response to Re: Re: MS Access data to PostgrSQL data  (Tim Uckun <tim@diligence.com>)
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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.....).
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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