Re: Password Protected .MDB File

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.databases
Date:
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:24:52 -0500
Message-ID:
<4b1864d9$0$274$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
GjoreNET wrote:

Hi, I'm having a problem with reading a password protected .mdb.
Here is the code that I use (Note: it is working just fine on a file
that is not with password):

                Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
                String filename = "d:/ARCHIVE_NOV_2009.mdb";
                String database = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Access
Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=";
                database+= filename.trim() +
";DriverID=22;READONLY=true}";
                Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection
( database ,"Admin","a1b2c3");
                Statement s = con.createStatement();

It returns the error:
ERROR: java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access
Driver] Not a valid password.

I have checked my MDB file it says:
Current User: Admin
and Password: a1b2c3

F1, F1, F1.....


The JDBC ODBC bridge really sucks.

Try:

String database = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver
(*.mdb)};DBQ=" + filename.trim() +
";DriverID=22;READONLY=true;Uid=Admin;Pwd=a1b2c3;}";
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(database);

Arne

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