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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by JackRabbitSlim on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:57PM (#21454799)
Given the relative lack of sophistication of Access databases migrating to literally any other RDBMS isn't very hard. MS offers an Access(and mysql,postgres,oracle) to MSSql converter for free. You may have to manually port stored procedures but it's not like MS doesn't give a fuck.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=542...

Cheap bullshit, not technical limitation, is at the heart of this level of "compatibility" issues.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by GetOutOfBed on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:51PM (#21456554)
This doesn't seem to take into account that Access isn't just a database.
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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by bluedino on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @02:08PM (#21455560)
The database is already on a real SQL server it's just the old dated connectors that you have to use
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