Microsoft Access As A Client For Free Databases? 353
"Can this be done effectively? Is there any good documentation on connecting Access to Non-Microsoft DB servers in general, and MySQL in particular? No 'ODBC RTFM' flames, please; I'm looking for something a little deeper here."
I'm not very familiar with ODBC beyond it's basic use, so I really can't answer this question, but might this be possible if the MySQL server were somehow treated as an ODBC source? It would be tremendous coup if somehow the power of the Access front end could be used with MySQL (or PostgreSQL, or mSQL or any other open sourced RDBMS)? MySQL does have some ODBC functionality and as well as other ODBC related links on their site.
For those of you who want to immediately play around and see if this is possible, you can find the MySQL ODBC driver, here and a PostgreSQL ODBC driver here.
(My apologies. The story went live right as I was still editing it to include links in the last two paragraphs...)
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