Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Wed, 09-Mar-2005 at 03:02PM +0100 (give or take), Jigal van Hemert wrote:

|> From: "Curtis Maurand"
|> > Using ODBC, however, you can link Access tables to MySQL tables and use
|> > Access as the front end to MySQL.  It works very nicely.
|> 
|> Using ODBC you can access MySQL from OpenOffice.org (which has an
|> Access-like frontend built in), using ODBC and MS Jet engine (standard with
|> recent Windows versions) you can access and edit Access databases (*.mdb)
|> with OpenOffice.org.

but only with Windoze, is it not?  I assume it's dependent on the OS
having the Jet engine.  I'd be very interested to know if anyone has
done an equivalent to that in Linux.




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