hello & welcome to ippola

Yay! a good friend and Thinking Partner of mine just got a LJ account.

ippola's interests include bisexuality, feminism, wicca, films & books. Meet em now on LJ and/or in person at BiCon this year :-)

real stuff with MySQL

Accomplishments of the evening: for the first time I got into mucking around with MySQL, as opposed to reading stuff about it.

Imported one of my Paradox tables into Quattro Pro (since Paradox doesn't work any more and Quattro Pro does), spat it out as a tab-delimited text file and slurped it into MySQL with the help of PHPMyAdmin. That worked, which is reassuring, 'cause it means I've got access to all me old data.

Then separately from that, created a new table and put some (new) real stuff in it.

Those were both pretty simple accomplishments compared to what's possible. But they both qualify as real stuff, a.k.a. Doing Something Useful (as opposed to pretend exercises to learn from, which I can't get excited about and generally can't be bothered with at all). So I have officially begun using MySQL. Yay!

PHPMyAdmin is rather good I think. I've seen it recommended a few times on usenet & the web, that's why I got it.

Next I wanna work out the missing link so MySQL can talk to WordPerfect for mail merging. I think probably something to do with ODBC. But now it's bedtime.