Migrate dBase to MariaDB

Shiji Pan

1 year ago

Want to migrate from dBase to MariaDB?

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Migrate from dBase to MariaDB

Choose source dBase database and logon.

Choose target MariaDB database and logon.

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

then show the wizard.

Create MariaDB tables. Copy dBase data to MariaDB. Create MariaDB indexes.

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

Property	in dBase	in MariaDB
port	`(file-based)`	`3306`
identifiers	`—`	`backtick`
row limit	`(driver dependent)`	`LIMIT n`
dates	`Date (D)`	`DATETIME, TIMESTAMP, DATE, TIME`
long text	`Memo (M)`	`TINYTEXT / TEXT / MEDIUMTEXT / LONGTEXT`
binary	`—`	`BLOB / TINYBLOB / LONGBLOB`

Side	Command
MariaDB	`mariadb-dump`
MariaDB (load)	`mariadb-import, or LOAD DATA INFILE`

MariaDB has no equivalent for Date and time - it has to be flattened or dropped.
MariaDB has no equivalent for Binary - it has to be flattened or dropped.
MariaDB has no equivalent for JSON - it has to be flattened or dropped.

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