{"id":243,"date":"2010-03-25T02:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T06:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/?p=243"},"modified":"2010-09-23T09:58:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T13:58:25","slug":"how-to-connect-to-file-based-data-sources-microsoft-access-microsoft-excel-and-text-files-from-a-64-bit-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/2010\/03\/how-to-connect-to-file-based-data-sources-microsoft-access-microsoft-excel-and-text-files-from-a-64-bit-application\/","title":{"rendered":"How to connect to file-based data sources Microsoft Access , Microsoft Excel and Text files  from a 64 bit application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a 32-bit Windows, you can access accdb files through the ODBC driver which is available for free at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=7554F536-8C28-4598-9B72-EF94E038C891&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components<\/a>. (If you installed Microsoft Office 2007 on your machine, you already have the driver as well and don&#8217;t need to install it.)<\/p>\n<p><del>Unfortunately this hasn&#8217;t been possible on a 64-bit Windows, because such a driver didn&#8217;t exist for a 64-bit environment. Now it seems that Microsoft is working on it to release a 64-bit version of Office 2010. It is still in beta status, but may be useful. The download link is here. \ufeff<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=C06B8369-60DD-4B64-A44B-84B371EDE16D&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Office System Driver Beta: Data Connectivity Components<\/a>.<\/del> They released the official version now. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/en\/details.aspx?familyid=C06B8369-60DD-4B64-A44B-84B371EDE16D&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a little more information in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/sqlblog\/archive\/2009\/12\/29\/how-to-connect-to-file-based-data-sources-microsoft-access-microsoft-excel-and-text-files-from-a-64-bit-application.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft SQL Server Support Blog : How to connect to file-based data sources Microsoft Access , Microsoft Excel and Text files  from a 64 bit application<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a 32-bit Windows, you can access accdb files through the ODBC driver which is available for free at 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components. (If you installed Microsoft Office 2007 on your machine, you already have the driver as well and don&#8217;t need to install it.) Unfortunately this hasn&#8217;t been possible on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[69,66,65,67,35],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-database","tag-driver","tag-odbc","tag-sql","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaewon.hwang.info\/jaewon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}