Adobe wrote these great, free ColdFusion Curriculum projects for new and intermediate ColdFusion developers. I recently had a friend interested in getting started with ColdFusion, and I pointed him in this direction. He came back to me a few days later, wondering if ColdFusion was really supported on the Mac. I asked him why he was wondering that, and he said that the curriculum databases provided were Access files, and ColdFusion doesn’t support Access on the Mac.
This was a silly oversight, and I ended up using the MySQL Migration Toolkit to convert those Access databases to MySQL dump files for him. And here they are for all of you!
Seeing as how they ship Derby database right with ColdFusion you have to wonder what they were thinking using Access?
Hmm . . . and so why didn’t Adobe provide Derby versions? That would have made sense as well, since Derby is built-in.
I agree with both of you… They should have provided the databases in Derby, or even a couple different formats. I would have done Derby databases, except I’ve never used it before. Also, with the MySQL Migration tool on windows, it was easy to convert everything & be done.