in reply to MS ACCESS/ODBC Not allowed

Is there a way to get around the fact that they won't let me have odbc access short of writing an adminstration script ( which we are doing ) so I can just grab the data?

Is the registration data you're trying to dump in MySQL? If so, there are a couple of ways of getting into MS Access.

One fairly easy way is to write a script to pull the data out into tab- or comma-delimited files, then download the data (as a text file through your browser) an import into Access. Text::CSV might be of help.

A more complicated approach is to pull data out of MySQL and create an Excel spreadsheet using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. This is probably overkill.

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