Okay, now that my temper tantrum has subsided... I spent part of Wednesday night studying table structures and laying out pseudocode of the process I'm going to have to write in order to do the porting. (I was stupidly overconfident; even without all the delays on Wednesday, I wouldn't have gotten very far.) I then discovered that the dialect of SQL I had to use because it's what the forum dump came to me in didn't support a feature I needed in order to do part of the task. So I exported the threads and posts tables out to SQL scripts and am trying to load them into Microsoft SQL. The threads table went up without too much trouble, but there are a lot of translation artifacts in the posts table -- again mainly caused by differences in SQL dialects -- that I'm having to massage and tweak by hand. I got about 30Mb of posts loaded before I had to crash last night, and just before I drifted off I realized I had done something stupid in the fixes that while not a gamebreaker was still annoying. So I'm going to correctly tweak the data in the posts script first, and re-do the whole process (which should take less time because I'm not debugging script errors while trying to run the inserts).
And once that's done, I can then test and hopefully run the scripts that will take that data and turn it into inserts which will correctly populate the MyBB tables. And the plan is still to do the Marketplace first.-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
And once that's done, I can then test and hopefully run the scripts that will take that data and turn it into inserts which will correctly populate the MyBB tables. And the plan is still to do the Marketplace first.-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.