in reply to Re: MS Access DB
in thread MS Access DB

Now don't panic .... what I was trying to explain (somewhat poorly) is that I will be uploading this MDB file (which only contains an updated list of all the SWIFT codes, names and addresses etc of the European banks.), to somewhere in the cgi-bin or level ... I wouldn't be thinking of putting it at htdocs public access level !! Regarding using the DBD:ODBC driver ... how will this work when our server is a Redhat 7 ? We don't have any MS Jet drivers or any way for the ODBC to communicate with the .mdb file format ? I was hoping that someone has some suggestion involving "MDB Tools" or "FreeTDS" which seem to be the only ways to read an .mdb file located on a Redhat box.

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(sparkyichi)Re: MS Access DB
by sparkyichi (Deacon) on May 19, 2002 at 17:30 UTC
    On a side note, putting it in the cgi-bin will not make it any more secure or less public.

    I have not done much work with Access Databases or database work on Linux, but I have worked with Oracle on Dynix. Working from the Unix server that the database is hosted on is no problem, but Access is another ball of wax. Here is a good link that covers access databases.

    I would think that it work fairly the same between Linux and Windows.

    Sparky
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