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Lab Activity 5: Instructions

This lab activity involves installing XAMPP and MySQL, creating a blank "Northwind" database, installing ODBC drivers to connect to the database, downloading the "Northwind Traders" template in Access, and migrating the Northwind tables from Access to the MySQL database one by one using ODBC export.

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Lab Activity 5: Instructions

This lab activity involves installing XAMPP and MySQL, creating a blank "Northwind" database, installing ODBC drivers to connect to the database, downloading the "Northwind Traders" template in Access, and migrating the Northwind tables from Access to the MySQL database one by one using ODBC export.

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Lab Activity 5

Instructions

Please complete this lab and submit a word document with screen shots showing the following
steps.

Lab

1. Install XAMPP and run MySQL server.

2. Connect to MySQL server from command prompt and create a blank database “Northwind” using
sql command.

3. Install MySQL ODBC drivers and create a DSN that connects to your blank database. Add your name
as a short code suffix with a leading underscore to the DSN name. i.e. northwind_KS is the DSN that
connects to blank database “Northwind” in MySQL, here KS stands for Kamran Safdar. Use short
code of your real name / attendance name.

4. Open / Download the “Northwind Traders” template database in Microsoft Office Access.
5. Migrate all the tables of Northwind database from Ms. Access to MySQL using the “Export >> ODBC
Database” option. Migrate tables one by one i.e. one table at a time.

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