bibliophile has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Esteemed Monks,
I've recently been handed a crufty old (well, MS Access 2000) Access db application to maintain.
As this is a little-used app, I thought I'd take the opportunity to rewrite it in Perl/Tk/DBI (probably MySQL as the backend)... purely as a learning excersise.
I see three paths to follow, here:
- Dump the data from Access, load it into MySQL, and point the Access front-end to the new backend. Then rewrite the front-end in Perl/Tk.
- Rewrite the front-end in Perl/Tk, and use DBD::ODBC to get to the data. Then convert the data to MySQL.
- Do both at the same time (basically, just rewrite the app from scratch).
Has anyone here had any similar experience? Recommendations? Red flags over looming snake-pits?
Basically just looking for opinions :-)
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Re: Converting Microsoft Access to Perl/Tk/DBI
by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 15, 2005 at 18:44 UTC | |
by bibliophile (Prior) on Jun 15, 2005 at 19:29 UTC | |
by eric256 (Parson) on Jun 15, 2005 at 22:28 UTC | |
by bibliophile (Prior) on Jun 16, 2005 at 13:57 UTC | |
Re: Converting Microsoft Access to Perl/Tk/DBI
by samizdat (Vicar) on Jun 15, 2005 at 18:44 UTC | |
by bibliophile (Prior) on Jun 15, 2005 at 19:26 UTC | |
by samizdat (Vicar) on Jun 15, 2005 at 20:11 UTC |
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