Here's a nice one ... we run our websites on Redhat 7.1, Perl and MySQL without any problems ... However, we receive our monthly updates from our banks in MSAccess databases (sometimes 97, sometimes very old 2.0 formats). I'd like to be able to simply upload the .mdb file(s) to our webserver, and use Perl + DBI plus a suitable driver to read the 50,000 or so records in the database. Note, I don't need to do anything but simple SELECT queries, I don't want to export, import or convert - just simply upload the .mdb file, and read the data straight from the .mdb to perl, where the file is physically on the same machine as my scripts (i.e. a localhost connection). Trying to access 50,000 records using a remote ODBC connection takes forever, even with our 2MB DSL - this is why I'd like to connect as a "localhost". Is this possible at all ? I checked out CPAN and can't see any suitable DBD modules for this.

In reply to MS Access DB by daveime

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