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Step 5 of 7. Conversion Settings
This wizard page is designed to customize conversion process using the following settings:
- Convert table definitions only - select this checkbox to convert only table definitions of MS Access database. All the data will not be migrated.
- Convert views - select this checkbox to convert views
- MySQL character set - tune this parameter to set up correct encoding of text values in the database. Please refer to MySQL documentation to better understand the concept of character sets and collations.
- MySQL engine type - storage engine determines basic characteristics of handling tables such as storage limits, transaction-safe, locking granularity, etc. Each of them has its own cons and pros. Please refer to MySQL documentation for the further information.
- Skip converting indexes - select this checkbox if you don't want to convert indexes
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