In a recent forum message, nybor_yam wrote:
"I'm a recent grad and have been trying to help (volunteer position to help gain experience) a division of the Asthma Society (a non-profit organisation) access the data in their database.
The problem is - the database was developed a few years ago, the developer is unknown, no-one knows anything about admin rights, and their is no documentation. Presently their is a basic kind of front end (PHP?) that allows the users to log in and run off 4 types of reports, and enter, edit or search the records that are in the database. When I type in Localhost the login form/page is displayed.
The society wants to be able to use some of the other that is stored, generate some ad-hoc reports. They would also like to import the data into the new national database that has been developed in Access.
What I am trying to do is find out what the database was developed in and how to access it. I have searched through the hard drive I found 'Postgre' installed on their machine. I am currently investigating the Postgre.org site, but am not sure if Im on the right track or not.
Can anybody please give me some help/tips on how I should tackle this problem and a bit of direction to follow - I feel a bit all over the place at the moment. Do I need to access the database? or can I just easily extract the data somehow?"
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"I'm a recent grad and have been trying to help (volunteer position to help gain experience) a division of the Asthma Society (a non-profit organisation) access the data in their database.
The problem is - the database was developed a few years ago, the developer is unknown, no-one knows anything about admin rights, and their is no documentation. Presently their is a basic kind of front end (PHP?) that allows the users to log in and run off 4 types of reports, and enter, edit or search the records that are in the database. When I type in Localhost the login form/page is displayed.
The society wants to be able to use some of the other that is stored, generate some ad-hoc reports. They would also like to import the data into the new national database that has been developed in Access.
What I am trying to do is find out what the database was developed in and how to access it. I have searched through the hard drive I found 'Postgre' installed on their machine. I am currently investigating the Postgre.org site, but am not sure if Im on the right track or not.
Can anybody please give me some help/tips on how I should tackle this problem and a bit of direction to follow - I feel a bit all over the place at the moment. Do I need to access the database? or can I just easily extract the data somehow?"
Can you help? Join the discussion in the About Databases forum.
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