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The MySQL Workshop

You're reading from   The MySQL Workshop A practical guide to working with data and managing databases with MySQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839214905
Length 726 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Creating Your Database
2. Chapter 1: Background Concepts FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating a Database 4. Chapter 3: Using SQL to Work with a Database 5. Chapter 4: Selecting, Aggregating, and Applying Functions 6. Section 2: Managing Your Database
7. Chapter 5: Correlating Data across Tables 8. Chapter 6: Stored Procedures and Other Objects 9. Chapter 7: Creating Database Clients in Node.js 10. Chapter 8: Working with Data Using Node.js 11. Section 3: Querying Your Database
12. Chapter 9: Microsoft Access – Part 1 13. Chapter 10: Microsoft Access – Part 2 14. Chapter 11: MS Excel VBA and MySQL – Part 1 15. Chapter 12: Working With Microsoft Excel VBA – Part 2 16. Section 4: Protecting Your Database
17. Chapter 13: Getting Data into MySQL 18. Chapter 14: Manipulating User Permissions 19. Chapter 15: Logical Backups 20. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Manually exporting MS Access tables

Before we start, let's look at some information that will help us decide what tables to move into MySQL and what tables to keep in MS Access. If you are thinking of migrating tables to a MySQL database, then it depends on the application. You also need to consider where your users are accessing the database, as well as the purpose of the tables. In the case of remote users, we only need to list those tables that feed drop-down lists. It may be better to keep these in the application as local tables. On the other hand, tables with MS Access-specific field types such as multivalued fields and attachment fields cannot be migrated. MySQL does not have a comparable field type, so it cannot use them.

Please note that it is never a good idea to store files and images in any database as you can with attachment fields or MySQL BLOB fields. They will make the database grow very large very quickly. It is better to store the path names in the files...

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