Microsoft Database Structure

Robert Sneidar slylabs13 at me.com
Tue Dec 4 23:00:08 EST 2012


Yup. I was envisioning a one stop shop approach. 

Bob


On Dec 4, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote:

> According to this you can export the data to Excel - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/78792
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 5 Dec 2012, at 10:57, Robert Sneidar wrote:
> 
>> Anyone have any experience in importing a Microsoft Works Database (WDB) file? My father has a number of these files, and wants to try to move to a Macintosh workstation, but his ball and chain is a number of works databases that apparently there is no OS X application that will open/convert in a way he can work with. 
>> 
>> I could write him a simple application that can read any works db I give it and convert it to an LC sqLite format, if I knew how to parse a WDB file at low level. I can look at the low level data myself, but if someone has done the work already, I would be willing to send a bit-o-cash his way. 
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
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