Shamil Salakhetdinov
shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru
Thu Sep 17 06:11:50 CDT 2009
Hi Gustav and all, They say on the page, which link you provided that they are: <quote> Developers of the only Silver Bullet Technology for migration of Microsoft Access data and/or applications to Microsoft SQL 2008/2005 </quote> I must say that when I'm hearing "Silver Bullet" then I'm becoming very careful... The subject tool seems to be a good professional automation tool and it should be useful in some contexts but mainly as the first step of migration of MS Access applications to MS SQL Server (+ maybe VB.NET/C# FE). There is "No Silver Bullet" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet ) - accidental complexity we usually see in MS Access applications can't be "magically cleaned" by automation tools. Bringing that "accidental complexity heritage" from MS Access applications into converted ones being still MS Access applications with MS SQL backends is as trying to tune an old car to be looking as a modern one - in such a case support costs will manyfold overweight "throw-away" modernization/replacement costs... I can be wrong. I wanted to see (am I missing them?) some samples of converted by "ConvertU2 Technologies" tool small real life or sample MS Access databases and applications... Thank you. --Shamil -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:20 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] FW: Converting Access to SQL Server Hi Rocky and Darryl You have to browse a little to unhide what the tool actually does compared to the MS wizards. However, a comprehensive list is found here: http://convertu2.com/2SQL_v_WIZARD_and_SSMA.htm /gustav >>> rockysmolin at bchacc.com 17-09-2009 06:55 >>> Anyone know anything about this product? Rocky _____ From: Jeff Todd [mailto:jtodd at convertu2.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:20 PM To: rockysmolin at bchacc.com Subject: Converting Access to SQL Server Hi Rocky, I found your contact information on the user group web site. As an Access developer and consultant I thought you would be interested in hearing about a new software solution that converts Access to SQL Server. It is called 2SQLT. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4432 (20090917) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.esetnod32.ru