Migrate Visual FoxPro to MySQL

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  • Create MySQL tables with auto mapping data types. Create MySQL indexes.

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Migrate from Visual FoxPro to MySQL

Login to Visual FoxPro -> Login to MySQL -> Select tables to migrate -> Migrate from Visual FoxPro to MySQL

Choose source Visual FoxPro database and logon.

Migrate Visual FoxPro to MySQL - Choose Visual FoxPro and logon

Choose target MySQL database and logon.

Migrate Visual FoxPro to MySQL - Choose MySQL and logon

Click “Wizard – Import All Tables” at task dialog.

migrate from Visual FoxPro to MySQL - Task Window

then show the wizard.

1. Open source Visual FoxPro.

Switch from Visual FoxPro to MySQL - Open source database

2. Set “Import Type”.

Migrate from Visual FoxPro to MySQL - list target tables

3. Select MySQL tables to migrate.

Switch from Visual FoxPro to MySQL - select tables

4. Migrate from Visual FoxPro to MySQL.

Create MySQL tables. Copy Visual FoxPro data to MySQL. Create MySQL indexes.

Switch from Visual FoxPro to MySQL - migrate

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Type mapping

Value kindin Visual FoxProin MySQL
IntNumeric(10,0)INT
BigintNumeric(19,0)BIGINT
DecimalNumeric(p,s)DECIMAL(p,s)
FloatFloatDOUBLE
TextCharacter(n)VARCHAR(n)
Long textMemoLONGTEXT
DateDateDATE
DatetimeDateTimeDATETIME
BinaryGeneralLONGBLOB
BooleanLogicalTINYINT(1)
JSON(none)JSON

Dialect differences

Both Visual FoxPro and MySQL are database servers, so the differences below are dialect-level: the same concept is spelled differently on each side.

Propertyin Visual FoxProin MySQL
port(file-based)3306
identifiers—`backtick`
row limit(driver dependent)LIMIT n
datesDate (D), DateTime (T)DATETIME, TIMESTAMP, DATE, TIME
long textMemo (M)TINYTEXT / TEXT / MEDIUMTEXT / LONGTEXT
binaryGeneral (G)BLOB / TINYBLOB / LONGBLOB

Command line

SideCommand
MySQLmysqldump, or mysql -e "SELECT ..." > out.csv
MySQL (load)mysqlimport, or LOAD DATA INFILE

No counterpart

  • MySQL has no equivalent for JSON – it has to be flattened or dropped.

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