Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 19:48 +0100, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote: > >>> Surely it would be MUCH less trouble to move the backend to Postgres, >>> SQLite, or even SQL Server Express, all of which are free. >>> >>> >> Indeed, which is what I'm going to do in the long term, rewrite the >> application. >> > > No need to rewrite the application. Access can happily interface with > any "real" database engine via ODBC. I've used MS Access with MySQL > before, if I recall. >
Well, that's an interesting point. Depending on how the application is written, you may be able to replace the Access database by a shell database that contains nothing but links to external tables in some other database, and do it without touching the application itself. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32