Darren New wrote:
> Brian Elliott wrote:
>> Phew!!   But -- it meant the death of hopes of preserving data to 
>> carry to a new database.  :-(
> 
> You didn't just write something to go through each table and say "select 
> * from $table" and then dump that out to CSV files, at least? :-)  One 
> of the lovlies about the RDBM was that you could do such things pretty 
> trivially.

Yeah - and then rebuild all the table structures, indexes, data 
permissions, etc. :-S Still, it depends on how "vital" the data is. I 
take it you didn't just loose your entire customer list or anything? ;-)

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