Accessing .mdb files through nodejs

Question

I want to Access .mdb files and manipulate like insert / update using nodejs

Please suggest a library that would suite the need.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Slightly different but node-adodb worked well for me for .accdb files:

https://www.npmjs.org/package/node-adodb

// Get the adodb module
var ADODB = require('node-adodb');
ADODB.debug = true;

// Connect to the MS Access DB
var connection = ADODB.open('Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:\\dbs\\my-access-db.accdb;Persist Security Info=False;');

// Query the DB
connection
    .query('SELECT * FROM [TestTable];')
    .on('done', function (data){
        console.log('Result:'.green.bold, data);
    })

Answer 2

This article describes the process for connecting PHP to an Access .mdb database: http://www.sitepoint.com/using-an-access-database-with-php/

The process for Node.js is quite similar - it's just another ODBC data source.

You'll need a node ODBC package, such as: https://github.com/wankdanker/node-odbc

Then you'll need to format your ODBC connection string. eg.

"DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=MyDatabase; Uid=; Pwd=;"

Answer 3

My suggestion is OWIN module which is currently developed as Edge.js by Mr Tomasz Janczuk.