Re: Microsoft Access and the Jet Engine

From: Bob Dalton (bob.dalton_at_removeme_digitallogistics.com)
Date: 10/22/04


Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:14:54 -0500

While I agree with Brian that it is not needed, I would still highly
recommend that you have it.

MS Access contains many useful utilities and function for dealing with the
databases it creates or works with. Examples: Database compacting and
repair. While you could perhaps build these on your own why reinvent the
wheel?

I have been using MDAC 2.8 with success with Access 2002 jet databases for
some time. Here is a link to it:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6c050fe3-c795-4b7d-b037-185d0506396c&DisplayLang=en

Regards;

Bob Dalton

"Guest" <Guest@aew_nospam.com> wrote in message
news:4176dfb0@newsgroups.borland.com...
I am new to this, so forgive me if this is a stupid question. If I want to
connect to an Access database from Delphi, do I need to have Access
installed? Or do I just need the Jet engine (or something else?) If I
don't need to have Access installed, which versions of Windows, if any, come
installed with the necessary libraries to do this? I appreciate your help.
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