in reply to MS ACCESS/ODBC Not allowed

I don't know much about MS Access, but I assume it can import CSV files. If this "dumping" is a one-shot deal for the event, could you export the data from MySQL as a CSV file (possibly using Perl), then import that into Access?

FYI, Perl can talk to Access, but I believe it needs the DBD::ODBC module to do so.

Update: Here's a little script that exports a PostgreSQL table of mine to a CSV file. You can adapt this to your MySQL table with only a couple of changes (connection string, user/pass, table name.)

#! /usr/bin/perl use strict ; use warnings ; use DBI ; use Text::CSV_XS ; my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'DBI:Pg:dbname=odms', 'doug', '' ) or die "Couldn't connect: $!" ; my $csv = new Text::CSV_XS ; my $sth = $dbh->prepare( 'select * from v_doc_list' ) ; $sth->execute ; while ( my $ary_ref = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) { $csv->combine( @$ary_ref ) or warn "Error: could not construct CSV string from [@$ary_ref]" + ; print $csv->string, "\n" ; } $dbh->disconnect ; exit ;

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