Sluggers,
I've been given some data in .mdb format from one of our lovely government
departments.
(don't even mention the issue of proprietary formats propagated by public services or I'll scream and possibly kill some
brain dead public servant).
So I need to read these files and extract the data from them. Google tells me that you can access this data using an
ODBC driver but then Google also tells me that this is likely to end in a horror story. However, I believe that I've
seen/read somewhere that there are tools available that allow me to open and read the files directly as raw data files.
Does anyone know if this is the case and if so what the name of the tools are? I think I've seen it done in PHP but
thought that might have been a specially compiled version of PHP or an object library added to the PHP.
The PHP on the server I've got to use is a standard version from a distribution and I don't want to pollute it with
binary libraries of possible.
TIA's
Pete
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