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Originally Posted by VinLoman You will lose any data that you have saved with INI. Unless you add it over manually afterwards.

I don't know why you are making this assumption that conversion has to be done manually, it doesn't unless all the .ini files use a different format / structure.

You can use regEx or even sometimes a normal replace function - Visual Studio should assist in writing a small program that can do this for all files in a directory.

Though, you should understand that SQL is a completely new language and is different from PAWN - PAWN brings an implementation, it doesn't modify the language.

You shouldn't attempt to convert from an ini system if you don't have sufficient SQL knowledge - especially regarding how to securely format a query and secure a database from exploits. To answer your last question, you do not need to have it running on localhost; the mysql_connect function allows connection to any connectable database address, assuming your firewall accepts it.