Re: Mathematica and Access
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- Subject: [mg95352] Re: Mathematica and Access
- From: Yves Klett <yves.klett at googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:09:51 -0500 (EST)
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Ignacio, have a look at the DatabaseLink package. As of 6.0, retrieving data works fine for me. In the 7.0 help-browser: DatabaseLink/tutorial/Overview Regards, Yves Ignacio Plazeta schrieb: > Dear Friends > > I have to manage an huge database in Microsoft Access format. > > I'm trying to do the job using Mathematica because hard computational > work is involved, but I'm unable to find the right way using > Mathematca's help only. > > Therefore, I export data from .MDB file in a TSV formatted one, precess > them, import data in .MDB file again. > > No doubt, it's a repetitive, slow, tedious method; I would love > modify data (as an example, decrease by 10% prices of all books having > been hanging for more than an year) directly within Mathematica Front > End (or by means of a Kernel batch call). > > Please can you suggest if it is feasible and, possibly point out a > tutorial about that ? Does anyone got a try before ? > > Thanks for your attension (and apologies for my poor English !!) > Best Regard > > Ignacio >