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Free database that is compatible with Access?

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nsafreak

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Truth be told I have Office 97 with Access available on it on CD but that version is so old I would like to use something more modern if possible. Does anybody know of such a program that will allow me to save a database in Microsoft Access format? For right now it needs to be able to run under Windows although I will be loading Linux on this PC in the future. I was looking at Openoffice and while it states it can create ODBC compliant databases with the appropriate drivers (wherever you get those) I'm not sure if it can do Microsoft Access compliant databases. Thanks for your help on this one folks.
 
Do you want the Db capabilities of Access or the Front End VBA programming capabilites.

If you need the back-end, then you can switch to MySql or any other SQL based DB.

If you want the front end, then you have no real choice. You want VBA, then you probabily will have to use MS products.
 
I would suggeset you switch to a better database backend as well, MDB files are pretty sh!tty. Access can access any SQL server that has ODBC drivers, MySQL and PostgreSQL both have ODBC drivers available and are much better choices.
 
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