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[Jon Baer]

Their mess should not be your problem ... if you can write a small, quick, efficient odbc 
filter that you can generically use that might help especially since it would not break 
your design or your clients.  There should be a way for you to setup your tables the way 
you would be comfortable in dealing with them and then look and see how youd like to get 
data, a job I was on would pipe csv back and forth with a filter in between.  

There is also a small tool called MdbToMySQL (freeware) you can try ...

http://www.mdbtomysql.de

- Jon   

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 04:40:53AM -0400, Mark Armendariz wrote:
> So, would you replicate his db and grin and bare it all, or would you format
> it the way you feel is 'right' and efficient and holy and just deal with the
> data conversion with every import / export?

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