I wonder how long until MariaDB dies off.

Good Morning.

Morning

Morning

Morning

Has anyone here -- or does anyone here know anyone who has -- migrated data from Filemaker Pro to something else like relational?

FM Pro can do an XML Export but the format is very obtuse. Would love to come into contact with someone who's done it before.

Not only obtuse -- we're grepping for data that should be in there, but we can't find it. So our export isn't complete. But we don't know the right questions to ask to get what we need. :-)

@Colin'tHart I guess you have already had a look at this:

fmhelp.filemaker.com/help/15/fmp/en/index.html#page/…

But no, I've never done it myself.

not sure if i'm being snowflake-y, but i feel weirdly guilty close-voting "👋 New Contributor" questions in the first-post queue

Morning

@PeterVandivier As long as you leave a comment explaining why you're closing & what they could edit into the question to make it keep-able, you're doing the right thing.

@hot2use Yeah, doesn't help that the XML export is very meta.

In my humble opinion, of course.

And like I said, we're seeing data in the app that we can't find by grepping in the XML exports we have

@PeterVandivier yeah, me too. Except when the question is awful.

And the OP doesn't respond to comments.

Like this one: dba.stackexchange.com/questions/227608/…

@ypercubeᵀᴹ blerg, yea... maybe taking out the garbage isn't such a bad thing

I would like to observe, if I may, that a question that's easy to answer is less likely to be asked in the first place :)

maybe i'm just being semantick-y, tho

semantics-y?

semantical :)

No, I don't think you are

semanticalifragilistic

expiali-troll-cious

I was commenting more on, I guess, the more straightforward interpretation of "easy to answer". As in, if a question was easy to answer, it probably wouldn't be asked. But I understand that you meant something else. Easy to answer = easy to understand the problem, right?

i was probably lazy with my phrasing there. maybe "well asked" would have been more direct

semantilicious

semanticulous

semantitive

semantaneous

semandiculous = semantically ridiculous

In other words, what I was being just then :)

@AndriyM ;-)

@Colin'tHart I know someone, but I'm pretty sure he used a non-free tool, if you want I can ask him which one

@Colin'tHart flag dup question :P

dbfiddle down?

nvm working

@EvanCarroll I can open it

Not Postgres

Now it works. dbfiddle.uk/…

Yep, it was down for a sec then it started working fast

BTW, MariaDB is a fucking abomination dba.stackexchange.com/q/227715/2639

Not just are the docs always wrong, but the actual code sucks and seems intentionally confusing.

but, it's Open Source.

GOOD POINT

It's also owned by Oracle which is exactly like Microsoft, except slightly worse.

Is MariaDB owned by Oracle too?

I thought, of the two, only MySQL was

@AndriyM correct

@ypercubeᵀᴹ I heard correctly then, thanks

But Oracle, of course, is evil, because MariaDB, which isn't owned by Oracle and is an abomination, is forked from MySQL, which is owned by Oracle and behaves adequately in the scenario in question. Brilliant.