Question

How can I read an data from access database (*.mdb) and get the column data types? More specifically, insert the data from Access into a MySQL database?

This is what I’m aiming for…

1. Connect to Access (*.mdb) with authentication.
2. Get data types of Access.
3. Create corresponding data types in MySQL.
4. Insert data.

Thanks.

Answer 1

To migrate from one base to another database, the first thing is to have the same table structure.

Then, to read from a database of ACCESS can do something like ( http://es.php.net/manual/es/function.odbc-exec.php#71615 ):

$emp_id = $_GET['emp_id'];
$stmt = odbc_prepare($db_conn, "SELECT pwd FROM employees WHERE emp_id=?");
$res = odbc_execute($stmt, array($emp_id));

Then, with the results, you must perform the commands of inspection at the MySQL database ( http://es.php.net/manual/es/function.mysql-query.php). For example.

mysql_query('INSERT INTO `'.$table.'` (`'.implode('`,`', $keys).'`) VALUES (\''.implode('\',\'', $values).'\')')