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Date:      Sun, 6 Oct 2002 02:16:11 -0500
From:      Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>
To:        Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: using PERL on FreeBSD to get data from MS Access... any ideas?
Message-ID:  <20021006071611.GF20787@ns1.webwarrior.net>
In-Reply-To: <000501c26cac$7838ac70$f69508d8@78lb019>
References:  <000501c26cac$7838ac70$f69508d8@78lb019>

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On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:19:10PM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote:
> Has anyone successfully been able to work with Microsoft Access
> database-stored data from PERL on a FreeBSD box?
> 
> Here's the deal:
> 
>     We've got a rather large Microsoft Access Database, the database is used
> to keep track of several leagues, their teams and players involved and all
> stats regarding any of the above. We need to find a way to securely access
> and display the data about the team/player stats on a per-league basis over
> the internet. Posting the entire database out onto public domain would allow
> anyone to download the whole thing and in essence 'steal' all the work done
> to create the project over the years. This is something that the DB creator
> obviously doesn't want to happen.
>     Any ideas on how we might be able to create pages on the server-side
> (FreeBSD/Apache) of the webserver to dynamically display stats and such
> information to the public? I understand fully what's rewquired on the
> programming side as far as interfaces/etc, (could do this no problem if the
> database was in mysql personally). The short version: need to find a
> server-side solution (prefereably using PERL:DBI) which will allow a CGI
> application to access a Microsoft Access database.
> 
> --
> Nathan Vidican
> nathan@vidican.com
> 

Google turned this up, I've never used it.

http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/Perl/PerlfortheWeb/simple_query.html

Josh

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