mdbtools is flawed in a number of areas - you are really going to struggle to use this successfully as an ODBC driver. The last release was Jun 18 2004. I strongly suggest that if you absolutely have to access MS Access from a unix machine you consider using an ODBC-ODBC bridge or another commericial driver (as I know of no opensource one that is close to working) - mdbtools is not up to it.

By all means submit this to the dbi-users list but I am on that list and I maintain DBD::ODBC and I'm not going to spend any time on mdbtools because I've wasted too much time in the past debugging some code to find it is a buggy mdbtools. Believe me, it is not a viable option for accessing MDB files.

In reply to Re^9: Fetching data from Access using DBI by mje
in thread Fetching data from Access using DBI by hacheb

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