Hand Install of 64-bit MS Access ODBC drivers when 32-bit Office is present

Question

I want to do a hand install of the MS Access 64 bit odbc drivers. Uninstalling 32 bit Office and installing 64 bit Office is not an option due to the add-ins that our compa

Answer 1

I ran into this same issue with a SpringJDBC app that connected to an access DB when I ported it over to a win7x64 box running eclipse-4.3x64 Kepler.

What ended up working for me was to COMPLETELY remove 32bit Office2010 [ and Lync and other MS apps tied to this ] and install the 64bit versions.

Here's the really fun part: The driver name to which you use for Access64bit driver name is now:

|Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)|

Yes, that's a comma-space after "mdb".

So, my spring-config for the Datasource looks like:

Hope this Helps!