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  1. Sep 07, 2016  One of the leading requests for Access was to see renewed support for dBASE (.dbf), and quite a few of you—particularly those in the Geographic Information System (GIS) community—made a compelling case to do so. Today, we are pleased to let you know that we are re-introducing dBASE file support (.dbf) in Access for Office 365 customers.
  2. Using Access I can open ACCDB and MDB files. Yet, if I run the x64 ODBC Drivers component there is NO Microsoft Access Database (.mdb,.accdb) driver listed. The only way I can get it listed is if I install the x64 Access 2013 Runtime. Then it shows up. Why is it not showing if I have access only installed?
  3. Apr 26, 2013  Where to download and install Microsoft Access dBASE Driver (.dbf,.ndx,.mdx)RSS 7 replies Last post Apr 26, 2013 07:09 PM by carlosgrtij.
  4. Oct 27, 2014  Installing 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Access Drivers next to each other. By Ovidiu Listes. For instance, that a 32-bit application using an ODBC driver to connect to an Access database might not work anymore, since the 32-bit ODBC driver might not exist on a machine with a 64-bit Office installation. FIL=MS Access SafeTransactions=0.
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Please explain this one to me ..

I am on a x64 bit computer (well, not literally standing on it :) ). And I have Office x64 installed, including x64 Microsoft Access.

Microsoft access database driver download

DBASE was one of the original database management systems and the dBASE file format (.dbf) has been around for a long time. Microsoft Access supports importing from and linking to the following dBASE file formats: dBASE III, dBASE IV, dBASE 5, and dBASE 7.

Using Access I can open ACCDB and MDB files. yet, if I run the x64 ODBC Drivers component there is NO Microsoft Access Database (*.mdb, *.accdb) driver listed.

The only way I can get it listed is if I install the x64 Access 2013 Runtime. Then it shows up.

Why is it not showing if I have access only installed?

Basically, I am trying to detect if my own executable is going to be able to open the ACCDB database OK. I do that by examining what drivers are installed.

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I had the same problem on a 64 bit Windows 10 system with 64 bit Office 2016. I was missing 64 bit ODBC Access drivers. Listing drivers (from Python's pyodbc module) showed only:

  • 'SQL Server'
  • 'PostgreSQL ODBC Driver(ANSI)'
  • 'PostgreSQL ODBC Driver(UNICODE)'

I installed the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable from Microsoft's site and it came with the extra drivers needed. Ford 3 speed manual transmission identification. I could then list:

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  • 'SQL Server'
  • 'PostgreSQL ODBC Driver(ANSI)'
  • 'PostgreSQL ODBC Driver(UNICODE)'
  • 'Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)'
  • 'Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb)'
  • 'Microsoft Access dBASE Driver (*.dbf, *.ndx, *.mdx)'
  • 'Microsoft Access Text Driver (*.txt, *.csv)'

And I was able to query an accdb file using the ODBC drivers from Python.

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