--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@...> wrote:

>
> > > rjurgensen wrote:
> > > > Does Firebird provide mdb support?
> > >
> > > Not a chance.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks. Your unwavering certainty helps a lot as I'm figuring out just
> > what Firebird can do.
>
> you seem to be implying that Firebird SHOULD provide mdb access in the same
> way that Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, etc does... (not)?
> Firebird is a database server (just tweeking the grey cells a little). It
> stores and brokers access to data in it's own proprietary storage disk
> format.
> Was there some expectation that it sould also talk to a myriad of other
> database formats?
> Alan
>

Good points. We saw a recommendation for mdb users to migrate to Firebird, and were confused that it would actually read the mdb files. When I couldn't find how to do this, I needed your clear answer to convince my team.

Thanks again,
Russell