[ale] Need to connect to a MS Access database from Linux

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Mar 25 15:59:51 EST 2005


Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:38, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Christopher Fowler wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a Perl module?  Then the perl code could emit XML that the java
>>>could easily read?
>>
>>I believe there is, but worst case, you could use the ODBC module.
> 
> 
> Doesn't the ODBC module still require a driver underneath?  ODBC is
> simply an abstraction to all these proprietary communication protocols
> to the different SQL database variants.  Perl's DBI module is an example
> of abstracting the low-level communications.

There is a perl ODBC module.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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