in reply to MS Access mdb files

With an ODBC driver for *NIX, and DBI and DBD::ODBC something like this should work.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use DBI ; use strict; #connect to Access file via ODBC my $accessDSN = q(driver=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb);). q(dbq=/home/user/mydbfile.mdb); my $dbhA = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$accessDSN",'','') or die "$DBI::errstr\n";
keep in mind that Access SQL is somewhat crippled, and that many ODBC functions will not be availible because the DBI module, and the third party vendor will not support them. But you should be able to at least pull out data via select statements
some odbc drivers

This is a how to on this exact subject here