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    From Charlie Hoffpauir@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Jun 6 17:23:36 2018
    On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:55:36 +0100, "L. Bousbaine"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Having recently bought a new pc, I've successfully loaded up Open Office and >am quite happy with it. I've now been sent a MS Access mdb database for a >project I'm volunteering on and don't have any software to open it on my new >pc at home. I have MS Access on my pc at work and can use the database
    there, but would like to ba able to work on it at home too.

    Can anyone suggest/recommend any inexpensive database software that will
    read MS Access mdb files?

    Thanks

    Lesley Bousbaine
    Leicester, UK

    More recent versions of Access use accdb files instead of mdb. I'm not
    sure when Access stopped using mdb, but think it was several versions
    ago.... The point being that maybe a copy of an older version of
    Access could be had quite cheaply.

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  • From Dennis Lee Bieber@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 7 15:39:07 2018
    On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 17:23:36 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir <[email protected]> declaimed the following:

    More recent versions of Access use accdb files instead of mdb. I'm not
    sure when Access stopped using mdb, but think it was several versions
    ago.... The point being that maybe a copy of an older version of
    Access could be had quite cheaply.

    While the newer version is accdb, it still handles mdb files. In truth, it is the JET database engine that handles them -- Access is really just a
    GUI form/report designer that, well, accesses JET databases (and with the proper ODBC drivers, can be used to access other databases too -- it used
    to have a driver that could open VisualFoxPro files; "Access Data Projects" were a means of using Access to work with MSDE/SQL-Server databases).



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