what are the various other programs using which i can connect to odbc database besides ms-access.
i’m talking about programs in which i can run sql queries. i dont want to use ms-access because the size of the access file has become 1.5 gb .
why my database is 1.5 gb ?
i am using access to connect to odbc – mysql database . which is quite huge.
in my access database i have several queries that create tables in the access database using odbc – mysql database thats why the size is huge . but 1.5 gb is still a bit too much for me to understand cause the sql dump of the whole database should not be more than 200 mb. maybe acess files are large in size compared to other databases.
now i dont want to use access anymore . but i want to use the existing sql queries in the ms-access database to operate the odbc-mysql database. also i want the queries that create table be modified so that that they create the database in mysql itself and not in ( access ) . so i am looking for this alternate program.
About the size of your Access frontend: If you haven’t done so already, try compacting the Access database file. Maybe the huge size is just a “leftover” from the temporary tables that were created and removed from the DB.
About alternatives:
You can keep using Access as the frontend and just create your tables in mysql instead (use so-called “pass-through queries” to enter SQL statements (CREATE TABLE, INSERT INTO, …) that are executed directly on the remote ODBC data source.
If you want other programs, the answer depends on whether you want to do “database administration” (manually enter SQL statements and move around data) or “software development”. In the latter case, you can use almost any development platform available on Windows at the moment; it won’t be easy finding one without ODBC client support. In the former case, you might want to ask on http://serverfault.com.