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Re: Is MS ACCESS needed to be installed?

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From: Viatcheslav V. Vassiliev
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:40
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No. But you may have the same protection level with Jet provider - just use
"Jet OLEDB:Database Password=XXX" instead of "Password=XXX" in connection
string.

> I tried to start a program on one older PC which
> hasn't MS ACCESS installed  and it failed to
> open DB...

Update MDAC (http://www.microsoft.com/data/) and install latest Jet SP
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/).

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Vassiliev V. V.
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> If I want to access *.MDB via ODBC and ADO
> (ODBC is here because I want to have a  password
> protected *.MDB without *.MDW) should I have
> MS Access installed?
>
> I tried to start a program on one older PC which
> hasn't MS ACCESS installed  and it failed to
> open DB...
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir.
>
>
>
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