[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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