[python-win32] Adding a really odd feature to Access as an odbc driver

[Tim Roberts]

Michael L Torrie wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 19:48 +0100, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
>   
>>> Surely it would be MUCH less trouble to move the backend to Postgres,
>>> SQLite, or even SQL Server Express, all of which are free.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Indeed, which is what I'm going to do in the long term, rewrite the
>> application.
>>     
>
> No need to rewrite the application. Access can happily interface with
> any "real" database engine via ODBC.  I've used MS Access with MySQL
> before, if I recall.
>   

Well, that's an interesting point.  Depending on how the application is
written, you may be able to replace the Access database by a shell
database that contains nothing but links to external tables in some
other database, and do it without touching the application itself.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.