From: Mike '/m' 


Good article.

On a related note (no pun intended), I am in the process of moving our
bug-tracking application from a home-brew MS Access database running
(obviously) on Windows to Bugzilla running on FreeBSD and using MySQL.  The
main reason for the move is the backward incompatibility among the various
versions of MS Access.  In my department we have folk with Access 97,
Access 2000 and Access XP, and we have found that to be
non-success-oriented.

I am finding the conversion to be quite easy.   The MySQL crowd supplied
MyODBC for MS Windows, allowing MS Access to talk directly to the MySQL
database that Bugzilla uses.  I've already started creating some transition
tables in MS Access, eventually I will do a couple of table copies over to
MySQL, and the incompatability problems among various versions of MS Access
will no longer slow us down.

 /m



On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:42:06 -0500, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>Cool, very interesting!
>
>- Bob Comer
>
>
>"Joe Barr"  wrote in message
>news:3e47a49e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I found a wonderful "how-to" piece called
"OpenOffice.org 1.0, ODBC and
>> MySQL," by John McCreesh. In the introduction, McCreesh writes about
>> OpenOffice.org 1.0's "best kept secret" ƒ?" that
secret being the fact
>> that hidden away inside, completely unknown to most OpenOffice users, is a
>> user-friendly front end for databases that is "a Microsoft Access (and
>> more) equivalent." That may be so, but there is a very good reason why
>> it's a secret: it's too damn hard getting OpenOffice and ODBC wired up
>> correctly.
>>
>> http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0207.barr.html
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>

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