I have a project, this guy has a customized system which was put into place in 1987. now we need to upgrade it to an online Database, The problem is that i dont kow what steps should be taken to do this. if anyone has the magic wond that would export from Superdos directly to MySql then i think the problem is 50% solved the rest is just doing it right. otherwise we will have to enter like a million enrties manually.
If any one has dealt with some thing like this please guide me
Sincerely
Zahaib
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I have a project, this guy has a customized system which was put into place in 1987. now we need to upgrade it to an online Database, The problem is that i dont kow what steps should be taken to do this. if anyone has the magic wond that would export from Superdos directly to MySql then i think the problem is 50% solved the rest is just doing it right. otherwise we will have to enter like a million enrties manually.
If any one has dealt with some thing like this please guide me
Sincerely
Zahaib
Hi there,
Am not sure what is SuperDos, anyway, how are the records currently saved? I meant to ask about the format? Please check out. Good luck & Take care.
Hi there,
Am not sure what is SuperDos, anyway, how are the records currently saved? I meant to ask about the format? Please check out. Good luck & Take care.
not sure yet but i am working on it, i am hoping to find out soon
sashi 1,754
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not sure yet but i am working on it, i am hoping to find out soon
Hi there,
Great, keep working. Good luck & Take care.
SuperDos did not have relational data, let alone databases. Application in that time were merely collections of flat file records posing as 'relational' objects. Believe me: they were not.
So you'll have to find out how the data was stored in each flat record and then insert it into MySQL.
You also have to find out the queries that were used on that data and see if there is an equivalent SQL command for that.
Maybe it will be a lot easier just to re-evaluate the whole data design and then re-design the data handling part of the application.
Anyway, good luck with that!
Ronald :cool:
Thanks alot for the reply, I havent had much luck as of yet. I am also thinking of doing the whole thing again the only thing is its alot of work.
I don't think you have to manually enter the lot. You should be able to do a select or show or something alike on each table. That must give you the column names and their values. Export that to a flat file, and you can use CSV routines to convert the data into MySQL tables.
Ronald :cool:
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