Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Fri Nov 3 14:27:53 EST 2006
Larry Bates wrote:
> Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
>>I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. Someone I
>>know is trying to move away from Microsoft Works, and I am trying to
>>look into a solution that would convert their data in a lossless fashion
>>to a more modern format. The database has more than 65K rows, so
>>converting it to be an Excel spreadsheet, would, AFAIK, not be an option.
[...]
> MS ships ODBC interface to xBase databases in all versions of Windows.
> You don't need Access. Just create DSN to your exported dBase database
> and MS Word, MS Excel, and any other ODBC aware product
Including, presumably, mx.ODBC in Python, which gives the most
attractive possibilities for output.
can read the
> data. If the data size is large or if you want to move to server, you
> can do that later.
>
regards
Steve
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