Re: FW: Status of Write Support?

Hey All,

 

I joined this list years ago and did a little bit of work on the package in creating a mdb-queries routine which allowed some work with the queries in Access.  

 

My memory isn't so great but I think the biggest challenge back then was the ever changing file formats that access used and the developers had a hard time keeping up.  Combine this with the fact that all of this is considered proprietary so Microsoft has no intention of releasing their file formats to make life easier.

 

I still see this project as being important to Linux adoption overall.  People have access databases and without a way of at least converting them this is a major hurdle for Linux to overcome.  Even if most people wouldn't use this command line tool directly, I can see the potential for this engine to be used in GUI environments in the future.

 

Anyway, just wanted to throw in my $0.02.  Nice to see some traffic on this list for once J

 

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From: Peter Benjamin Volk [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:33 AM
To: Houston, Dion A Sr CPT MIL USA TRADOC
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [mdb-dev] FW: Status of Write Support?

 

Hey,

I tried to contact the original developers about a year ago but did not get any reaction. In one of our projects we have a plan to continue to develop the mdbtools a bit. We have not gooten to far with it since other things got in our way. Seeing this project get back to live would be great. 

Cheers,
Peter

Houston, Dion A Sr CPT MIL USA TRADOC wrote: 

Ooops, guess I sent this directly to Murray instead of the list... Resending...

Dion
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From: Dion Houston <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:30:58 -0400
To: Murray Collingwood <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [mdb-dev] Status of Write Support?

OK, well I'll first state my bias.  The Jet database engine will always have a special place in my heart.  I still remember the excitement I had when Access 1.0 came out (I had been doing database work since dBase II under CP/M).  Later I had the chance to work in the Jet database group which provided my living for several years.  So my opinion is by no means unbiased.  Jet, especially for the times, was an amazing accomplishment.  It really marked the first time a high performance database engine was available essentially for free.

MDB Tools is no Jet.  Nor do I think it was ever meant to be.  But I would definitely say there is a place for write support if for nothing else than interoperability.  In my case I'm hoping to enable people to use the latest and greatest data file formats with an older system.

I've reviewed the code base and I believe it's a reasonable short term project to at least provide a Create Table function and the ability to write forward-only into that table.  This is the minimal requirements that will meet my needs.  

If anyone has an interest in this level functionality please let me know.

Also, if any of the original developers are lurking around on this list, thanks for all you've done so far!

Dion



-----Original Message-----
From: Murray Collingwood <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:43 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [mdb-dev] Status of Write Support?

Hi guys

I agree with Alex.  Actually, I think this read-only ability may be part of the plan to extract as much data out of Access as possible without the ability to put it back.  Frankly, I think it's a good plan.  The sooner we get rid of Access the better.

Cheers
mc


2009/10/23 Alexander Lehner <[email protected]>


Hi Houston, Dion A Sr CPT MIL USA TRADO,

just wanted to let you know that I'm reading this mailing list for more
than 1 year now and got about 2 or 3 posts so far.
mdbtools development seems to be dead somehow; reading works for my usage,
writing - I don't know.
But I would not expect too much support for any further development.
Pretty sad for a cool project...

Alex.




On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Houston, Dion A Sr CPT MIL USA TRADOC wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I finally resolved my CVS issues with this project and have the latest source compiled for OS X Snow Leopard.  I see that there is a write.c that apparently has at least some support for writing.
>
> I am new to this project, and noticed that there is very little documentation.  My questions are:
>
>
>  *   What is the level of write support currently in the CVS tree?
>  *   How do you use it? (preferably a code snippet)
>  *   Are there any more detailed docs on the API design?
>
> My particular application is to convert multiple file formats to and from a particular MDB database format in a cross platform way.  For converting to this MDB format I do not require random access, nor SQL, nor anything else.  It would be nice to be able to create databases as well, but I can certainly place an empty database into a folder and just add the necessary table.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance,
>
> Dion
>

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