Re: [INTERFACES] Access 2000 and ODBC

> Interestingly enough, this thread is also very active on the MySQL mailing
> list. It seems that ACCESS 2000 has a bug that makes many ODBC datasources
> read only. Some MySQL tables linked to Access 2000 via ODBC are read/write
> and some are not. Note that if the tables are converted to Foxpro tables
> (use same column types) then Access has no problem. Hopefully Microsoft
> will pay attention.

I've worked just a bit with ODBC, but not with any of the front end
tools you are discussing. But I vaguely recall some discussion on the
list that some tool (Access?) required that there be a primary key
defined to allow a table to be considered writable.

Does this ring a bell with anyone? If not, sorry for the
misdirection...

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California