[DM-MUG] Fwd: Re: [MacLaw] Fwd: Microsoft Access?

[Bill Davis]

That won't really do it; you could convert the data tables, but not the 
data entry form, reports, queries, and Visual Basic for Applications 
program code, and if they are using an Access-based third-party 
product, then it certainly does involve entry forms and VBA code (or a 
standalone Windows program that reads Access .mdb data files)

There really is no solution for converting or running Access databases 
like this on a Mac except using Virtual PC, Guest PC to run PC software 
on your Mac, or by using the free Remote Desktop Connection for Mac to 
connect to a physical PC.

If the database in question uses JUST the data tables, however, then it 
could probably be converted to a cross-platform database such as 
FileMaker without much difficulty or time.

(I program Microsoft Access databases and Visual BASIC programs for a 
living, by the way.)

  - Bill Davis



On Feb 14, 2005, at 7:26 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

>>
>> I'm not aware of anything like this when I searched a year or so ago. 
>> The
>> firm I was forming uses TrialWorks Jet, which is Access based. There 
>> was no
>> mac version of access, hence no mac version of TW.
>>
>> You might see if your employer would consider using a different 
>> database
>> such as MySQL. From what I understand it is possible to convert 
>> access to
>> SQL.
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