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MDB Tools

MDB Tools reads Microsoft Access MDB files and documents the Jet3 and Jet4 file format. Its libraries, command-line utilities and ODBC driver expose tables, schemas, queries and exported data; HACKING.md records page structures, offsets and other format findings.

Targets: App
Category: Binary analysis libraries
Relationship: Foundation tool
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 1.2k
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-2.0

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Building from Git requires libtool, automake, autoconf 2.64 or newer and pkg-config; the SQL engine additionally needs bison 3.0 or newer and flex.
Limits: MDB import and libmdb write support are experimental; tables with indexes are not handled correctly.
License: Libraries use LGPL terms; utilities use GPL terms. The repository's COPYING file contains GPL version 2.

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BibTeX

@misc{mdb-tools,
  title = {{MDB Tools}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools}},
  url = {https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/mdb-tools/}}
}

Plain text

MDB Tools. https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/mdb-tools/

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HACKING.md GitHub · mdbtools/mdbtools · Revision 96d6880
README.md GitHub · mdbtools/mdbtools · Revision 96d6880

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