From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Feb 20 16:58:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B0837BF7D for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:58:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA09018; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:56:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:56:54 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Matt Heckaman Cc: FreeBSD-ISP Subject: Re: Database software. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Matt Heckaman wrote: > Hi, > > Currently I'm using a MS Access database that handles all kinds of > customer things and orders, and so on. I've been looking for a solution > that would allow me to move this over to a FreeBSD box, as it would just > make my life a whole lot easier than having to relay on Windows for such > critical data. > > I'm looking for something, if it exists, that can interact with access' > databases. I'm aware that I can export the table into MySQL, but I really > don't want to lose the front end and reports, forms, etc; that have been > created to date. > > Maybe, I'll get a bit lucky and there will be something like this out, > even if it's commercial, doesn't bother me. Paradox 9 (Corel) looks > interesting as it can (apparently) do this, but there is no Linux port > of it yet, so chances of it running over here are slim until there is > one. Any help is appreciated. Thanks/ > > Matt > -- > Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] > !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] > I use mySQL (available from ports) with the Windows ODBC driver for SQL, myODBC. See http://www.mysql.org/download_myodbc.html for downloading information. -- Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message