- All MS Access data types and attributes are supported
- Works with all versions of Unix and Windows MySQL servers
- Converts indexes with all necessary attributes
- Converts individual tables
- Merges MS Access data into an existing MySQL database
- VServer user's option (see below)
- Converts password protected MS Access databases
- Converts MS Access databases protected with user-level security
- Exports MS Access databases into a dump file (see below)
- Easy-to-use wizard-style interface
- Full install/uninstall support
Limitations
- Converts MS Access tables only (forms, queries, reports are not supported)
- Does not convert system (hidden) tables
- Does not convert relationships between tables
Requirements
- Windows 2000/XP or Windows NT 4 with Internet Explorer 5 or later or Windows 98/ME or Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 5 or later
- MS Access 7.0 or higher (ODBC is not required)
- At least 32 MB of available memory
VServer user's option
If you are using Virtual Server hosting you probably have no sufficient privileges to create new databases on the target MySQL server. For this case we recommend the following approach:
ask your Virtual Server administrator to create blank database for you
run Access-to-MySQL and select this database as the conversion target
click "Yes" when you will be asked if you'd like to overwrite existing MySQL database
When you complete these steps, the entire contents of the source MS Access database will be imported into the specified MySQL database.
MySQL dump file
Access-to-MySQL allows users to perform deferred conversion and get more control over the process. Following this way, the program stores the contents of the source database into a local dump file instead of moving it to MySQL server directly. The resulting file contains MySQL statements to create all tables and to fill them with the data. You will be able to import this file into existing MySQL database via MySQL client as follows:
mysql.exe --host=... --user=... --password=... -vvf {MySQL database name} < {dump file name}
