[vox-tech] Export MySQL DB to flat file

Dylan Beaudette dylan at iici.no-ip.org
Mon Oct 25 13:56:04 PDT 2004


On Monday 25 October 2004 12:52 pm, Rod Roark wrote:
> On Monday 25 October 2004 12:20 pm, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> ...
>
> > We had a beautiful system for managing about 500 volunteers written in
> > PHP/MySQL and running on a linux machine, that was set to be moved to a
> > MacOS X box for permenant use... Now it would seem that after some
> > re-shuffling of administrative departments this is no longer the case,
> > and they want the application re-written in ASP/MS-SQL...
>
> All that for 500 volunteers?  I wonder how that will work
> out in terms of development expense per volunteer.  Sounds
> like someone wants MS SQL on their resume.
>

Actually, it sounds like a department that refuses to support, or even put up 
with anything non-MS... even existing systems that need only be hosted.

ah well...

Dylan

PS: thanks David and Mark for the ideas!


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