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Hacking with Databases (Copenhagen)

Created by David Tarrant on Feb 09, 2012 · last edited by David Tarrant · on Feb 09, 2012 (view history)

Details of the Hacking Sessions accompanying the Database Archiving Event Agenda.

SIARD Demo

As part of the introductions to the Hacker session, a number of people wanted to get an intro to the SIARD tool and the related XML structure.

Translating Microsoft Access Databases into Archival XML

A number of users came to the event with Access databases and wanted to learn the best way to translate these into archival XML.

The environment to have set up:

How to migrate the database:

Translating FoxPro Databases into Archival XML

Similar to the Access problem above, except with a different database type, this group worked separately to come up with the following solution:

The environment to have set up:

How to migrate the database: