Re: LDIF2SQL

[Jim H. <ha...@us...>]

There have been numerous discussions about the topic of LDAP and SQL in
this mail list and the plain ldap list.  The gist is that relational
databases and LDAP directories are very different animals and conversion
between the two is not straightforward, especially with things like
multi-valued attributes.

I have written a set of applications to keep our directory and our
database in synch.  There are numersous special cases and exceptions in
the code.  Its not pretty, but it works.

The bottom line is that there isn't a magic elixir to convert between the
2.

  Jim Harle
  US Naval Academy


On Wed, 31 May 2000 mi...@cr... wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	Has anyone ever built a script which does an LDIF to SQL conversion?
> I know this isn't rocket science but I figured I would check before building
> it myself.  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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