Thread: RE: [INTERFACES] Access 2000 and ODBC

RE: [INTERFACES] Access 2000 and ODBC

From
"Christopher R. Jones"
Date:
Interestingly enough, this thread is also very active on the MySQL mailing
list.  It seems that ACCESS 2000 has a bug that makes many ODBC datasources
read only.  Some MySQL tables linked to Access 2000 via ODBC are read/write
and some are not.  Note that if the tables are converted to Foxpro tables
(use same column types) then Access has no problem.  Hopefully Microsoft
will pay attention.

>Since I haven't got any answer, I transfer this mail to the list...
>
>Nicolas Huillard
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De:    Paul Rijke [SMTP:p.rijke@truckland.nl]
>Date:    jeudi 3 février 2000 15:08
>À:    Nicolas Huillard
>Objet:    RE: [INTERFACES] Access 2000 and ODBC
>
>Yes of course.... There seems to be a problem linking tables from Postgres
>into Access 2000. In Access 97 there's not a
>problem at all, but in 2000 the tables are read only, no matter what the
>ODBC driveroptions are....
>
>It looks like a bug and looking trough the archives a lot of people are
>confronted with the same problem...
>
>I was curious if someone has tackled the problem yet...
>
>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: Nicolas Huillard [mailto:nhuillard@ghs.fr]
>Verzonden: donderdag 3 februari 2000 15:06
>Aan: 'p.rijke@truckland.nl';   
>Onderwerp: RE: [INTERFACES] Access 2000 and ODBC
>
>
>Can you explain a little bit more what you want ?
>
>Nicolas Huillard
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De:    Paul Rijke [SMTP:p.rijke@truckland.nl]
>Date:    jeudi 3 février 2000 13:58
>À:    pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
>Objet:    [INTERFACES] Access 2000 and ODBC
>
>Is there already a solution to the linking of tables in Access 2000?
>
>Paul Rijke
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Re: [INTERFACES] Access 2000 and ODBC

From
Thomas Lockhart
Date:
> Interestingly enough, this thread is also very active on the MySQL mailing
> list.  It seems that ACCESS 2000 has a bug that makes many ODBC datasources
> read only.  Some MySQL tables linked to Access 2000 via ODBC are read/write
> and some are not.  Note that if the tables are converted to Foxpro tables
> (use same column types) then Access has no problem.  Hopefully Microsoft
> will pay attention.

I've worked just a bit with ODBC, but not with any of the front end
tools you are discussing. But I vaguely recall some discussion on the
list that some tool (Access?) required that there be a primary key
defined to allow a table to be considered writable.

Does this ring a bell with anyone? If not, sorry for the
misdirection...
                    - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California