Well, it was an old database and we actually just wanted to browse the records to see if there is anything important in them. If I had an old sql backup laying

Well, it was an old database and we actually just wanted to browse the records to see if there is anything important in them. If I had an old sql backup laying around and want to check whether we will need any of this data in the future the experience is much more straight forward. The path of mnesia was not so easy and intuitive. :X