mdb-sql
SQL interface to MDB Tools
SYNOPSIS
mdb-sql [-HFp] [-d delimiter] [-i file] [-o file] [database]
DESCRIPTION
mdb-sql is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools. mdb-sql allows querying of an MDB database using a limited SQL subset language.
OPTIONS
-H Suppress header row. -F Suppress footer row. -p Turn off pretty printing. By default results are printed in an ascii table format which looks nice but is not conducive to ma‐ nipulating the output with unix tools. This option prints output plainly in a tab separated format. -d Specify an alternative column delimiter. If no delimiter is specified, columns will be delimited by a tab character if pretty printing (-p) is turned off. If pretty printing is en‐ abled this option is meaningless. -i Specify an input file. This option allows an input file contain‐ ing the SQL to be passed to mdb-sql. See Notes. -o Specify an output file. This option allows the name of an output file to be used instead of stdout.
COMMANDS
mdb-sql in interactive mode takes some special commands.
connect to The currently implemented SQL subset is quite small, supporting only
single table queries, no aggregates, and limited support for WHERE
clauses. Here is a brief synopsis of the supported language.
select:
SELECT [* | When passing a file (-i) or piping output to mdb-sql the final 'go' is
optional. This allow constructs like
echo "Select * from Table1" | mdb-sql mydb.mdb
to work correctly.
The -i command can be passed the string 'stdin' to test entering text
as if using a pipe. MDB_JET3_CHARSET
Defines the charset of the input JET3 (access 97) file. Default
is CP1252. See iconv(1).
MDBICONV
Defines the output charset. Default is UTF-8. mdbtools must have
been compiled with iconv.
MDBOPTS
semi-column separated list of options:
• use_index
• no_memo
• debug_like
• debug_write
• debug_usage
• debug_ole
• debug_row
• debug_props
• debug_all is a shortcut for all debug_* options mdb-sql first appeared in MDB Tools 0.3. The mdb-sql utility was written by Brian Bruns. The supported SQL syntax is a very limited subset and deficient in sev‐
eral ways. gmdb2(1) mdb-export(1) mdb-hexdump(1) mdb-prop(1) mdb-ver(1) mdb-ar‐
ray(1) mdb-header(1) mdb-parsecsv(1) mdb-schema(1) mdb-tables(1)
isql(1)
Will display the column information for the specified table.
quit Will exit the tool.
SQL LANGUAGE
WHERE
NOTES
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