[Gllug] Access Database to MySQL / PostreSQL

[Tethys]

Jason Clifford writes:

>My experience of migrating a medium size (50MB) Access database to MySQL 
>was very pleasant. The database migration was very straight forward 
>indeed.

I'd like to migrate some of ours, but they're huge (600MB or more).

>> Following which I guess it is just a metter of sticking a web front end 
>> on it :-)
>
>That should be the case yes. Doing so should be fairly straight forward 
>using perl or php (or python if you are so inclined) and apache.

The biggest problem here is that a web browser is rarely the best
way of presenting a user interface. Compared to using Access, it's
slow, clunky and inflexible, and users *will* complain. The one
redeeming feature of a web front end is that it's reasonably cross
platform -- unless you use gratuitously incompatible HTML, which
some of the software we've bought does :-(

Tet

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