Reading an Access file?
John Ridge
john.ridge at mac.com
Thu Sep 8 04:30:43 EDT 2005
Thanks, Xavier - in fact Mark Wieder very helpfully contacted me off-
list, and I now have from him a CSV version - so all is well. In CSV
form, the file is 16KB - the Access version was 154KB... I hope the
ratio of overhead to content is a bit better on those 500GB files!
Best wishes
John
On 8 Sep 2005, at 08:53, MisterX wrote:
> John
>
> You might have more luck with Excel (there might be also plugins
> for excel)
> but doubtful.
>
> Exporting the file out of Access in CSV or TAB text format is the best
> solution... Or you could use mysql one way or another but that has
> requirement too.
>
> Dont ask me about Moft Access - i never liked it - but it is the
> engine
> behind outlook and that's not bad considering we had 3 servers with
> databases 500GBs in size ;)
>
> cheers
> Xavier
>
>
>
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