DBConvert for FoxPro & MySQL

In case you need to convert database records in FoxPro to MySQL then giving a look to the remarkable DBConvert for FoxPro & MySQL 2.1.0 software might come handy. This tool can easily export data between the databases without losing any logical structures. The software incidentally also has a sleek user interface allows the tasks to be accomplished with effortless ease.

The program launches with opening screen that shows the options set on the left side of the screen and the related features are shown on the right. The ‘Welcome’ screen shows the in initial information about the program and its step by step process. On the next step you need to select the Source, here you have to select the Connection settings. Set the Hostname and with the Port option you can also enable to use SSH forwarding and set the configuration for it. You can set the desired Username and password and then select the ‘Connection Character Set’ from the drop down menu to be utf8, Latin1, 2,.., or armscii8. You can check the connection with the ‘Test Connection’ option so that you make the correction at the very step. Choose the source database file according to your requirements to be MS Visual FoxPro Database, MS Visual FoxPro tables or MySQL Database. Then you need to set the Destination for which you require to set the output file and also select the additional features. The Customization shows the various fields from which you can make the selection for the field items. You can remove the symbol with the Replace option and even set to overwrite the existing database. Make the required selection with the Data Conversion Scheduler. You can also change the skin and language of the program. You can also set the Work Folder and enable the ‘Confirm exit’ and ‘Autoload last session’. When you’re done with all the settings do the conversion and you’ll get the results mad with perfection.

The software receives a very good score of 4 rating points on account of its capacity to perform conversions in appreciably lesser time. It also gives a good account of itself in providing data manipulation options which also adds to its repute.

DBConvert for MS FoxPro & MySQL is a database migration tool for data conversion from MS FoxPro database to MySQL server and MySQL db to Microsoft FoxPro.
You can convert FoxPro to MySQL or MySQL to FoxPro simply by configuring several options through Wizard interface or in command line mode. The ability to organize application work using command line parameters is supplemented with a scheduler so you can run the program without user control after task scheduling.
If direct access to your MySQL base is denied (insufficient privileges), you can save your data into PHP script or dump file to overcome such restrictions.The destination file will consist of MySQL statements to create all the tables and to fill them with the data. Using this dump file MySQL server administrator will add data to your MySQL database. With this tool you can also generate FoxPro program files (.prg) with SQL-script inside if you need to update remote FoxPro databases.
Features: Unicode Support, Primary keys and Indexes conversion, Interactive multilingual (English, German, French, Russian) GUI mode for all tools / advanced command line mode, data filtering, renaming of tables, fields, indexes before conversion.
You can check each program step with savable log files and run again conversion with stored session files keeping all your inputs and settings.
For data protection during conversion process you can open SSH tunnel for secure communication between remote computers using data encryption. One of the key things of database managing is the ability to filter data during conversion. Integrated data filters allow users to retrieve only specific data for converted tables according to defined filtering criterias (conditions). Filters give you more control on data migration process.
To guide you through all conversion stages and settings adjustment for Filters, SSH and customization options detailed help file is enclosed as well.