On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > smoeone emailed me a *.mdb database. is there a *.mdb reader as > a debian package? (i presume it's some database format -- i'd > love to just get it into postgresql, or at least tab-sep-text.) > > $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* > postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/doc/html/app-vacuumdb.html > postgresql: /usr/share/man/man1/vacuumdb.1.gz > postgresql-doc: > /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/postgres/app-vacuumdb.html > postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/vacuumdb > $ apt-cache search mdb > $ > > where's the *.mdb reader?
It's a MicroSoft Access database file. There's an MDBTools project at SourcForge that's trying to make it possible to extract data/schema from these files (provided they aren't encrypted with user level security -- database level password security is/was trivially easy to break). -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
