tables without having MS Access installed

[Anja]

Hi everyone,

I have a VB application that accesses (read and write) some data in a
MS Access (mdb) database. Now, I want to distribute this application
and the database and some of my users might not have MS Access
installed. Is there some way to read and write to the tables without
having MS Office installed. I do not need any access to forms, reports
etc. but only the tables.

I know Access uses some JET database engine and I was wondering if
just installing that would suffice.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Anja

 

[Roger Carlson]

If your VB app does all the data manipulation, there's no need to have
Access itself installed.

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MS Access MVP
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[Anja]

If your VB app does all the data manipulation, there's no need to have
Hi Roger,

Thanks for the reply!

So, just to clarify, all I have to do is connect to the Access
database just like any other ODBC database?

Thanks,
Anja

 

[Roger Carlson]

That's right.

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MS Access MVP
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