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MDB Tools — Read Access databases on *nix

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README.md

Welcome to the exciting world of MDB Tools! MDB Tools is a set of programs to help you extract data from Microsoft Access files in various settings. See the NEWS file for information about the latest release.

The major pieces of MDB Tools are:

The core library that allows access to MDB files programatically. See mdbtools.h for the complete API.

Builds on libmdb to provide a SQL engine (aka Jet). See mdbsql.h for the complete API.

Provides command line utilities, including:

Command	Description
mdb-ver	Prints the version (JET 3 or 4) of an mdb file.
mdb-schema	Prints DDL for the specified table.
mdb-export	Export table to CSV or SQL formats.
mdb-json	Export table to JSON format.
mdb-tables	A simple dump of table names to be used with shell scripts.
mdb-count	A simple count of number of rows in a table, to be used in shell scripts and ETL pipelines.
mdb-sql	A simple SQL engine (also used by ODBC and gmdb).
mdb-queries	List and print queries stored in the database.
mdb-hexdump *	(in src/extras) Simple hex dump utility to look at mdb files.
mdb-array *	Export data in an MDB database table to a C array.
mdb-header *	Generates a C header to be used in exporting mdb data to a C prog.
mdb-parsecsv *	Generates a C program given a CSV file made with mdb-export.

See the man page of each program for usage instructions.

The src/util directory also contains a number of debugging tools, intended for developers. They are:

Command	Description
prcat	Prints the catalog table from an mdb file.
prkkd	Dump of information about design view data given the offset to it.
prtable	Dump of a table definition.
prdata	Dump of the data given a table name.
prole	Dump of ole columns given a table name and sargs.

These tools are not installed on the host system.

An ODBC driver for use with unixODBC or iODBC driver manager. Allows one to use MDB files with PHP for example.

The Gnome MDB File Viewer and debugger. Recently ported to GTK+3 and moved to mdbtools/gmdb2.

Files in libmdb, libmdbsql, and libmdbodbc are licensed under LGPL and the utilities and gui program are under the GPL, see COPYING.LIB and COPYING files respectively.

First, you must have reasonably current installations of:

If you want to build the SQL engine, you’ll need bison (version >= 3.0) or byacc, and flex.

If you want to build the ODBC driver, you’ll need unixodbc-dev (version 2.2.10 or above) or iodbc.

If you want to build man pages, you’ll need GNU awk.

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PDO: How to access Microsoft Access file on Linux?

I have managed to read data of Microsoft Access file (.accdb) on Windows using PDO but I’m having problem getting to work on Linux (CentOS). I can see modules is installed:

[root@rapid host]# php -m | grep PDO PDO PDO_ODBC [root@rapid host]# php -m | grep odbc odbc 

;Dbq=/root/access/data.accdb;Uid=Admin"); > catch(PDOException $e)< echo $e->getMessage(); exit(); > 

[root@rapid host]# php access.php SQLSTATE[IM002] SQLDriverConnect: 0 [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified 

5 Answers 5

you should install the MDB driver.

I have no way to try it now, but I think that MDB Tools (specifically the ODBC driver) can do what you’ re interested to.

I’ve never worked with a Microsoft Access database but I do regularly connect to DB2 (on IBM AS/400’s) and MS SQL servers from Linux (Ubuntu) servers. Your error seems to indicate you don’t have a MS Access driver installed — the only one I’m aware of is: http://www.easysoft.com/products/data_access/odbc-access-driver/index.html

Your error message also says the «Data source name not found» — in order for me to connect to DB2 or MSSQL I have to add some information to /etc/odbc.ini and /etc/odbcinst.ini.

/etc/odbcinst.ini — this is where you describe where to find the drivers for ODBC. Here’s an example of what I use for DB2 and MSSQL:

[iseries] Description = iSeries Access for Linux ODBC Driver Driver = /usr/lib/libcwbodbc.so Setup = /usr/lib/libcwbodbcs.so NOTE1 = If using unixODBC 2.2.11 or later and you want the 32 and 64-bit ODBC drivers to share DSN's, NOTE2 = the following Driver64/Setup64 keywords will provide that support. Driver64 = /usr/lib/lib64/libcwbodbc.so Setup64 = /usr/lib/lib64/libcwbodbcs.so Threading = 2 DontDLClose = 1 UsageCount = 1 # Define where to find the driver for the Free TDS connections. [freetds] Description = MS SQL database access with Free TDS Driver = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/odbc/libtdsodbc.so Setup = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/odbc/libtdsS.so UsageCount = 1 [ODBC] Trace = no TraceFile = /tmp/odbc.log 

In that last section ([ODBC]) I currently have Trace = no — if you change that to Trace = yes you will get some helpful debugging information in the /tmp/odbc.log file.

/etc/odbc.ini — this is where you define your data sources. Here’s an example of what I use for DB2 and MSSQL:

[primary] Description = primary Driver = iseries System = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX UserID = XXXXXXXXXX Password = XXXXXXXXXX Naming = 0 DefaultLibraries = QGPL Database = MYLIB ConnectionType = 0 CommitMode = 2 ExtendedDynamic = 0 DefaultPkgLibrary = QGPL DefaultPackage = A/DEFAULT(IBM),2,0,1,0,512 AllowDataCompression = 1 LibraryView = 0 AllowUnsupportedChar = 0 ForceTranslation = 0 Trace = 0 # Define a connection to the MSSQL server. # The Description can be whatever we want it to be. # The Driver value must match what we have defined in /etc/odbcinst.ini # The Database name must be the name of the database this connection will connect to. # The ServerName is the name we defined in /etc/freetds/freetds.conf # The TDS_Version should match what we defined in /etc/freetds/freetds.conf [mssql] Description = MSSQL Server Driver = freetds Database = MyDatabase ServerName = mssql TDS_Version = 8.0 

I’ve seen a number of questions here on StackOverflow talking about using MSFT Access databases from a Linux machine — and there doesn’t seem to ever be a happy ending. If there is any way you can port the data to a different, better supported, database system (like MySQL) I think you’ll save yourself some headaches. Good luck!

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How to Open View MS Access mdb files in Ubuntu / Linux

MDB Tools is a set of command line utilities that can be used to read mdb format (Microsoft Access) database files on Linux.

It also comes with a gtk based graphical frontend tool called Gmdb (Gnome MDB Viewer) that can be used to read the table structure and data quickly and easily.

More information can be found at the project website:
https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools

On Ubuntu or Linux Mint it can be installed from default repositories:

$ sudo apt-get install mdbtools

If you want a gui tool then use MDB Tools Gmdb program from the following github project:

The package is not available in the ubuntu repositories, so you need to compile it for ubuntu or any other distro.

Deprecated:

Earlier there was a package named mdbtools-gmdb that could install everything, but its no more available.

$ sudo apt-get install mdbtools-gmdb

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One Comment

1. MurliGawali November 24, 2020 at 10:10 am Sir,
   After installing
   $sudo apt-get install mdbtools-gmdb the MDBTools is not working Showing
   “could not find driver ” here is my php code —>
   $database=”/opt/lampp/elibdata/database1.mdb”;
   $driver = “MDBTools”;
   try //$dbh = new PDO(“odbc:DSN=MS Access Database;DBq=$database;”);
   $dbh = new PDO(“MDBTools:Driver=;DBq=$database;”);
   //$dbh = new PDO(“pgsql:host=localhost;dbname=”,$database,””,””);
   //$dbh = new PDO(“odbc:Driver=$driver;DBQ=$database”, “”, “”);
   $dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); $sql = “SELECT * FROM Admc”;
   $STH = $dbh->query($sql);
   $STH->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
   >
   catch(PDOException $e) echo $e->getMessage().”n”;
   exit;
   >
   #close the connection
   $dbh = null; Please guide me in this matter. Thankx in Advance.
   MNG

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