[PLUG] mdbtools

Carlos Konstanski ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Wed Jul 23 04:00:12 UTC 2008


Carlos Konstanski writes:
 > In a huge stroke of luck, I discovered that my Access tables are all
 > actually "Linked ODBC" objects.  They are all database links to an
 > MSSQL 2000 server's tables.  So I'm off the hook for this go-around,
 > since it will be much better to deal with a real database that has a
 > network address and stuff.
 > 
 > There are quite a few Access databases floating around in my
 > department, all performing scarily critical tasks, so I'm still
 > interested in this suite of utilities.  Keep the tips coming!  I found
 > the various mdb-* commands to work as advertised.  The Linked ODBC
 > tables were not visible, however.  I guess it can only read the data
 > that is actually contained in the .mdb file.
 > -- 
 > Carlos

Forgot to mention: now that my problem has changed to MSSQL database
connections with unixODBC, I'll probably have freetds questions coming
your way.
-- 
Carlos



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