[TriLUG] M$ Access replacement?

[Jeremy Portzer]

Actually, you can do better than that.

MS Access supports ODBC, so you can connect it directly to an open source
DB such as MySQL or Postgres, through the ODBC connectors that are
available from those projects.  Also, there are "upsizing" tools that will
convert your table schemas and copy everything in the correct formats.  
And you'll be really happy to be using a "proper" client/server based
RDBMS instead of Access, which embeds both client data and server data all
in one mega file.

--Jeremy

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Turnpike Man wrote:

> export to delimited txt, import into open source db of choice is what I'd do...
> 
> --- Lee Fickenscher <elfick at trilug.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:25:10PM -0400, P. L. Charles Fischer wrote:
> > > Is there a Linux program that will read Microsoft Access database files?
> > 
> > Not that I know of... Heck, Access doesn't even do a good job of readin
> > Access database files. :-)
> > 
> > -Lee
> > 
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