Robert Citek wrote:
> I have a copy of an MS Access database on my Ubuntu 6.06 laptop and I'd
> like to query it.
> 
> What tools have folks here used and would recommend?

mdb-tools is one that was recommended on another list.  Any others?

Under Ubuntu 6.06:

  apt-get install mdbtools

Here's a sample script to display the first few records from each table
in the database:

db=foo.mdb
mdb-tables -1 $db |
 while read table ; do
  echo 'select * from '\"$table\" |
   mdb-sql $db |
   head
done |
less -iX -S -# 10


Here's a sample script to export all the tables in the database as
tab-delimited files:

db=foo.mdb
mdb-tables -1 $db |
 while read table ; do
  mdb-export -Q -d$'\t' $db "$table" \
  > db/"$table".csv
done


Regards,
- Robert


 
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