in reply to How can I connect/access an MS access database from solaris?

I have a workaround script for this sort of situation, the code may be seen here. It involves exporting CSV files from an inaccessable database and using the script to upload them and thwen use them to do INSERTs and UPDATEs to a mySQL db. The most recent version includs buffer flushing and a progress bar for large ( > 5000 lines ) csv's. This may require too much human intervention to be a solution for you.
Peace,
jg
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Re: Re: How can I connect/access an MS access database from solaris?
by samurai (Monk) on Sep 10, 2002 at 18:16 UTC
    Creating insert and update statements for sending CSV data to mySQL is slow and unnecessary. Mysql lets you directly import delimited files via the LOAD DATA function. Just export to CSV and do that instead (you must create your table def first tho).

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      I had thought LOAD was only available from the command line. I see that I was incorrect.
      Thank you for the tip.
      jg
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        Actually ... the only "web" part of this, is that the MS Access database lives on a web server at a remote server farm. And I'm trying to insert a record from another IP through PERL CGI code.

        I was hoping to use something like:
        dbi:DriverName:database=database_name;host=hostname;port=port adapted as such:
        dbi:ODBC:database=DSN_name;host=ip_address_of_IIS_box;port=dsn_port

        I've loaded DBI and DBD::ODBC onto my Solaris box through CPAN. But DBD:ODBC wants an ODBC driver to point to. And I'm having a heck of a time finding a free ODBC driver for Solaris.

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      However, doing this will break replication if you are using this. In that case, you have to create the insert commands before pushing them in to MySQL.
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