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.