SQL database (was Re: [ot] the year is 1982)

[Keith Antoine]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Uh-oh ! You forgot to mention something about Linux! That would push
> this post to General, under the new rules. But before that happens, let
> me just take a stab at answering this ...
>
> Your best bet is to use MS Office (ugh!) because someone would probably
> have the ODBC connection already setup. Specifically, you will need
> Excel and you need to configure Excel to use an ODBC connection to the
> database to extract the data and dump it into the spreadsheet. Here's a
> useful link :
> http://help.lockergnome.com/office/SQLite-Excel-ODBC-ftopict704125.html
>
> Hope this helps! 
>
> Of course, accessing data in Linux is a lot easier !
>
> Regards,
> pascal chong
>   

Thanks for the reply, but I have a copy of the database on my HD. Now I 
have Suse 10.1: what would I use there
to access the information therein. I want something that I can read and 
convert to a new softwares database which
is also SQL. I am doing all this for a charitable organisation as a 
volunteer; I am not allowed to earn money!
so as they can get up and going. Actually I wanted to use linux as the 
OS but there is nothing in the medical
monitoring alarm software of any quality around.

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