[TriLUG] Access databases under linux

[Andrew Perrin]

Depends on what the definition of "using windows" is -- with ODBC you
still need Access (or, more correctly, Microsoft Jet) running to serve the
database, unless things have changed since I was doing Access work (3-4
years ago).  So you can read/write from a linux client, but a windows
server has to host the database itself. AFAIK there's no way around that
-- that is, no linux-capable program that can read/write Access files.

ap

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On 15 Feb 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 12:30, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> > Is there a way to access a Microsoft Access database under linux without
> > Wine/Win4Lin/VMware?
> > 
> > I have an Access97 db that I need to leave in that format for sharing but
> > I'd like to access it without using Windows.
> 
> Hmmm how about ODBC?
> 
> http://www.easysoft.com/products/2002/main.phtml
> 
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