Alan is correct.
The idea would be to change to Firebird and solve the problems of
using MS Access in a multi-user setup on a network I guess - in a
vastly improved way. You probably know there is no doubt that Firebird
is vastly superior with a good support network and many add-ons
available.
There are, however, a number of utilities around that can help with
transferring the raw data and make a pretty good guess at keys etc.
Look on google for "convert mdb to firebird"
--
Alan J Davies
Aldis



Quoting rjurgensen <russell@...>:

> --- 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
>
>
>