Re^3: Perl & Microsoft Access

that´s right. but if you are a windows programmer that has already used DAO/RDO-objects in other languages you might find that easier/more familiar.
Also you can address the .mdb-files as files. You don´t have to set up an ODBC-connection for every database you wan´t to use. Acccess sees databases as files, and that is, IMHO, the most valuable feature of Access. You don´t have to struggle with tablespaces, usernames/passwords and other things that come with a DBMS like Oracle and the like.

holli, regexed monk

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Re^4: Perl & Microsoft Access by jZed (Prior) on Jan 13, 2005 at 20:04 UTC
> You don´t have to set up an ODBC-connection for every database you wan´t to use. That's also true with DBI ... here's an example of a DSN-less connection to MS Access via DBI. update > if you are a windows programmer that has already used DAO/RDO-objects in other languages you might find that easier/more familiar good point, that's certainly one reason why someone might prefer the Win32::OLE route.	[reply]

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Re^4: Perl & Microsoft Access
by jZed (Prior) on Jan 13, 2005 at 20:04 UTC

That's also true with DBI ... here's an example of a DSN-less connection to MS Access via DBI.

update > if you are a windows programmer that has already used DAO/RDO-objects in other languages you might find that easier/more familiar

good point, that's certainly one reason why someone might prefer the Win32::OLE route.

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