I wonder whether it is possible to read data from mysql database not remotely from server, but just from a file on my disk, like from .mdb files. A happened to work with 2010 Office which gives .accmdb files rather then .mdb and cannot convert them, that's why I switched to mysql.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can use MySQL Embedded server. That will be similar to how you are working with Microsoft Access. AFAIK, Anydac supports MySQL Embedded server. May be other libraries too.
But I does not see a reason to replace Access with MySQL. To work with .accdb files you need to use different OLEDB provider (I expect you are using ADO) - "Microsoft Office 12.0 Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider" or similar.
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On Windows 7, I must connect a MS Access client .accdb, where all the forms, VBA scripts, macro, and reports are, to a MySQL Database instead of a MS Access database .mdb. Here what I have tried so far.
I created a connection with MySQL Connector /ODBC 5.3 Unicode driver to the MySQL database with success.
After in MS Access 2013, I created a new database .mdb by linking to my local machine ODBC Connector. I can see the data in each table I have linked.
However, I didn’t find where to change the connection’s setup of the MS Access client .accdb so it uses the data from the new .mdb file linked to the MySQL database. Where do we do that?
Actually, I had also tried to directly connect the .accdb to MySQL by linking to my local machine ODBC Connector. In that case, the .accdb's forms kept trying to connect to the previous .mdb database. Where can I change this configuration?
Is there another, maybe easier way to use MS Access's user interface to interact with data from a MySQL database?
I am trying to access a Visual FoxPro Database through MS Access 2013 on a Windows 7 Machine, but I am getting this error.
"specified driver could not be loaded due to system error 0. The operation completed successfully(Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver C:\Windows\system32\vfpodbc.dll).(#160)"
I tried installing Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 but I am getting the same results.
Any help is much appreciated.
You cannot use OLEDB with Access, can you? If you can then it is straight forward with VFPOLEDB driver.
You cannot use VFP ODBC driver if database version is later than VFP6.
If you are in a need to downgrade to access (which I never classify as a "database") then you could use Excel in between. Excel can import data using OLEDB (but strangely access can't, go figure). Or if you know how to write VBA code in access then maybe you could utilize the OLEBD driver from there too.
Another option might be to get the data to SQL server express via OleDb, then from SQL server to access (yet a bigger downgrade).
Another option would be to use code for this. If it were from VFP it would be as easy as 1,2,3 creating a cursor adapter or remote view to access and pumping data there. With C# too you can create connections to both sides, read from one and write to the other.
If I were you, I wouldn't choose to downgrade to access, but maybe upgrade to postgreSQL, MS SQL, ...
PS: Check out Advantage Database Server. It was supporting ODBC for VFP (local server version for free). That might be your option.
PS2: Access can import XML, right? Maybe you would want to export VFP data as XML and import from there.
I am getting data from someone to analyze and what they have given me are very large Access files. I want to convert them to CSV. Opening up the files in MS Access 2013 and exporting as CSV has been easy enough; however, one MDB file is 2GB and I can't even open it in Access.
All of the MDB files only have one table, so that makes my life easier. Is there a way to convert a 2 GB MDB file to CSV, perhaps using a script/program or something? If it helps, I'm using a Windows machine.
Thanks.
A2013 may try to convert it when opening it.
Try creating a new database and create a link in this to the table in the 2 GB database file.
Or try using Access 2003 or Visual Studio (the Community edition is free), or attach is a linked database in SQL Server (the Express edition is free).
I'm working in NetBeans 6.8 and I'm trying to create new connection using MySQL to an existing database. Does the .mdb file need to be in a specific location? It tells me that it cannot establish the connection.
.mdb is an extension of a Microsoft Access database file, not MySQL. You need a different driver and you're not likely to get a platform-independent open source implementation.
I am using 64-bit Vista and I need to migrate an access database, in Office 2007 to SQL Server.
I don't want to have to write an SSIS package to do this, but that may be my only option.
Is there any other way to do this? I have about 330M of data in Access that needs to be moved, so I can write a webapp to replace this database.
Update: The error is:
The upsizing Wizard does not work with the version of Microsoft SQL Server to which your Access project is connected. See the Microsoft Office Update Web site for the latest information and downloads.
In Access, use the upsizing wizard under tools menu...
Edit, checked to see if it's still there: it has issues with SQL Server 2008.
Do you get the same error? (yes you do, says your edit)
Alternative: SSMS/Migration for Microsoft Access
See if creating a Linked Table inside Access DB (which points to your destination table in SQL Server) helps.
OR
See if you can use SQL Server functions (such as OPENROWSET) to open the Access tables.
The SQL Server 2008 Import/Export tool has worked great for me for migrating tables as well as data. You may need to install the SQL Management Studio to get the import tool also (it'll show up in your Start menu). It supports moving tables/data around from various sources, and I'm guessing that Access 2007 is supported.
That said, the SSMS/Migration for Microsoft Access tool may work the best overall.
Best of luck.
When all else fails, you could try creating an ODBC DSN for your SQL Server and then export the tables to that DSN. It won't get all the datatypes right, but it might be good enough to get things started if nothing else works.
I think it's pretty amazing that you can export a Jet/ACE table to an ODBC data source, to be honest.