Thanks Bob, but I was actually specifically asking about mdbtools in that email.
I'd sent a separate one about ODBTP (Subject "Re: Help with creating DBD::ODBTP"). Perhaps you just replied to the wrong one. In that second email I asked if any work had been done on implementing an ODBC driver, *not* a Perl DBD. Implementing an ODBC driver would be pure C work and would then make ODBTP far more accessible as many unix tools include support for a ODBC driver manager. Tim. On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 03:10:11PM -0500, Robert Twitty wrote: > Hi Tim > > ODBTP is a solution that provides full support for MS Access from any > platform. Not only does it provide write access and complete SQL suppot > for MS Access databases, but it also can easily run stored queries using > prepared statements. It also is the best Open Source solution for > connecting to MS SQL Server, Visual Foxpro and any other Win32 ODBC > accessible database from UNIX/Linux platforms. This is the good news. > > The bad news is that the only supported scripting langaage is PHP. > This is because I do not have the knowledge nor the time to write a > DBD::ODBTP driver with the ODBTP client C library. Requests have been > made for this, but since I am not a user of Perl, there is no immediate > plan to fulfill them. The C library is wwll documented, and I would not > mind helping someone create a DBD::ODBTP driver. > > Details about ODBTP can be found at http://odbtp.sourceforge.net > > -- bob > > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > Did anything come of this? > > > > Has anyone tried using DBD::ODBC with the mdbtools ODBC driver to > > access an Access .mdb file[*](possibly networked via Samba etc etc)? > > > > Tim. > > > > [*] Of course it's really a 'Jet' database engine file, and Jet is > > also used in MS Money, Project, IIS, and Exchange etc. > > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:05:44AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > I was simply expressing a preference that if there was to be > > > "AnyData::Format::Access.pm using mdbtools" > > > then I'd rather there was > > > "DBD::Access using mdbtools" > > > > > > Since I've not looked at mdbtools I can't really comment much more than that. > > > > > > I saw Brian Bruns (the developer) mention that mdbtools includes a > > > (buggy) ODBC driver. So long as it's functional enough now to do > > > simple selects then that's probably the best way to go - using > > > DBD::ODBC. > > > > > > Tim. > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:11:09PM -0700, Tim Harsch wrote: > > > > Forgive my naivity (or just flawed understanding) but how would one go > > > > about creating a DBD::Access? For instance DBD::Oracle is built on OCI, > > > > does Access have a similar network protocol? I thought that ODBC was > > > > about the only MS supported method of communicating to it... > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Tim Bunce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 2:18 PM > > > > > To: Jeff Zucker > > > > > Cc: Orlando Andico; DBI-Users; dbi-dev; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Subject: Re: MS Access > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:27:20AM -0700, Jeff Zucker wrote: > > > > > > Orlando Andico wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > It IS possible to read MSAccess files on a Linux box. > > > > > > > http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hmm, I had no idea that was available, forget my advice > > > > > about saving the > > > > > > Access files as CSV. > > > > > > > > > > > > At first glance it looks like it would be trivial to build an > > > > > > AnyData::Format::Access.pm using mdbtools which would then provide > > > > > > direct DBI interface to the MDB files. If anyone is > > > > > interested in doing > > > > > > this, let me know and I'll help. > > > > > > > > > > I'd rather someone did a DBD::Access. > > > > > > > > > > Tim. > > > > > > > > > > > >
