On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 16:29, Chris Cormack wrote: <snip>
3. The present records are kept in a MS database and it would be helpful if these could be transfered to the Koha mysql database. Anyone got any suggestions? My thinking at the moment is to transfer each group (e.g Authors) singly, but I do not know how to go about this. I have never used a sql DB before so I am on a sharp learning curve.
If you can get the data out as a tab separated text file, or comma separated or something like that, Im sure we could write a perl program to massage the data into Koha's database
Another alternative is to install phpMyAdmin on your web server.. phpMyAdmin can import date in almost most formats readable by MS Excel or Gnumeric. (At least I've never had any problems) As a bonus it gives you a nice multilingual way of administering your MySQL server.
Chris
Good luck, Micheas