now if I can just get the two coworkers bashing MySQL to step down, and show my boss a working version of MySQL and use this tool/script to convert it, I might be able to get it to work.
I think that MySQL might be a better front end database than Access, and it would cut out one more Access project. But like I freaking said a million times by now, it is not within my fucking power to choose the database to run this on. It is the owner and the coworkers that have decided on SQL Server and they hired me because I knew SQL Server. Any ideas on how to convince them?