[Gllug] Reading an Access97 mdb file

John Hearns john.hearns at cern.ch
Tue Jan 7 10:55:30 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:14, Stan wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way that I can extract data from a table held in
> a access97 .mdb file...a perl modules would be best (can't find
> anything on CPAN) but any linuxy thing would be useful.
> 
A quick search on Freshmeat turned up
http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
Given that this project is dated Feb 2000, it is probably well out of
date.
> I know that I can export the data if I run access on a windows machine
> but this is a task that would need to be done daily so a nightly cron
> seems best to me!
Could you run the export script/program on the Windows box?



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