On Mon, 14 May 2001, Mark Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for the quick and painless (idiots guide) instructions to
> connect to an MS Access database running on NT from a Digital UNIX machine.
>
> Need to knows:
>
> What DBD:: ?? needs installing
>
> How should the database handle look seeing as how there is no instance for
> an Access DB :
>
> $dbh1 = DBI->connect( "dbi:??:??", "username", "password" ) . Do I need
> some software for this?
As Jason suggested you need some tool that will remotely connect to the
Access database, since I'm fairly sure Microsoft haven't provided any
Access drivers for Digital Unix.
When you install DBI you also install the tools you need for remote
database access:
DBD::Proxy
DBI::ProxyServer
I haven't used the Proxy DBD myself, but it seems fairly obvious to use
from the documentation in:
perldoc DBD::Proxy
perldoc DBI::ProxyServer
--
Tony
