-- Brice D Ruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/18/01 10:57:26 -0500
> Am I assuming correctly, that Perl could communicate with a MS Access
> database file via ODBC, on a Windows box? If so, are there any
> particular gotchas or limitations to this approach that I should be aware
> of? I typically use MySQL or PostgreSQL on a Linux or FreeBSD box, so
> this is sorta new to me. Also, is it possible for iODBC to communiate
> with a MS Access database file on a Linux box? Is there any way to do
> this? If, e.g. I wanted to setup Apache + mod_perl on a Linux box to
> access a local Access database file - what would I need? Or is this not
> possible?
ODBC doc's pretty well describe the pitfalls -- beginning with ODBC
itself. Check "perldoc DBD::ODBC".
dbi mailing list also has plenty of examples if you check the
archives.
sl
