On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:19:10PM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Has anyone successfully been able to work with Microsoft Access > database-stored data from PERL on a FreeBSD box? > > Here's the deal: > > We've got a rather large Microsoft Access Database, the database is used > to keep track of several leagues, their teams and players involved and all > stats regarding any of the above. We need to find a way to securely access > and display the data about the team/player stats on a per-league basis over > the internet. Posting the entire database out onto public domain would allow > anyone to download the whole thing and in essence 'steal' all the work done > to create the project over the years. This is something that the DB creator > obviously doesn't want to happen. > Any ideas on how we might be able to create pages on the server-side > (FreeBSD/Apache) of the webserver to dynamically display stats and such > information to the public? I understand fully what's rewquired on the > programming side as far as interfaces/etc, (could do this no problem if the > database was in mysql personally). The short version: need to find a > server-side solution (prefereably using PERL:DBI) which will allow a CGI > application to access a Microsoft Access database. > > -- > Nathan Vidican > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Google turned this up, I've never used it. http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/Perl/PerlfortheWeb/simple_query.html Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
