Want to migrate from Visual FoxPro to Percona?
Try Withdata DBCopier, a Visual FoxPro to Percona converter for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Migrate Visual FoxPro to Percona, Easy and Fast.
- Step by Step, just a few mouse clicks.
- Create Percona tables with auto mapping data types. Create Percona indexes.
Migrate from Visual FoxPro to Percona
Login to Visual FoxPro -> Login to Percona -> Select tables to migrate -> Migrate from Visual FoxPro to Percona
Choose source Visual FoxPro database and logon.
Choose target Percona database and logon.
Click “Wizard – Import All Tables” at task dialog.
then show the wizard.
1. Open source Visual FoxPro.
2. Set “Import Type”.
3. Select Percona tables to migrate.
4. Migrate from Visual FoxPro to Percona.
Create Percona tables. Copy Visual FoxPro data to Percona. Create Percona indexes.
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See also:
Visual FoxPro → Percona reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in Visual FoxPro | in Percona |
|---|---|---|
| Int | Numeric(10,0) | INT |
| Bigint | Numeric(19,0) | BIGINT |
| Decimal | Numeric(p,s) | DECIMAL(p,s) |
| Float | Float | DOUBLE |
| Text | Character(n) | VARCHAR(n) |
| Long text | Memo | LONGTEXT |
| Date | Date | DATE |
| Datetime | DateTime | DATETIME |
| Binary | General | LONGBLOB |
| Boolean | Logical | TINYINT(1) |
| JSON | (none) | JSON |
Dialect differences
Both Visual FoxPro and Percona are database servers, so the differences below are dialect-level: the same concept is spelled differently on each side.
| Property | in Visual FoxPro | in Percona |
|---|---|---|
| port | (file-based) | 3306 |
| identifiers | — | `backtick` |
| row limit | (driver dependent) | LIMIT n |
| dates | Date (D), DateTime (T) | DATETIME, TIMESTAMP, DATE, TIME |
| long text | Memo (M) | TINYTEXT / TEXT / MEDIUMTEXT / LONGTEXT |
| binary | General (G) | BLOB / TINYBLOB / LONGBLOB |
Command line
| Side | Command |
|---|---|
| Percona | mysqldump |
| Percona (load) | mysqlimport, or LOAD DATA INFILE |
No counterpart
- Percona has no equivalent for JSON – it has to be flattened or dropped.
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