Yesterday I wrote a brief post on links to visit for converting your Microsoft Access Database to an OpenOffice Base database. This only works for Windows-based installations.

For those using database formats such as mySQL, Oracle, etc, you should visit MDB Tools.

For some, the best [...]

For those that have Microsoft Access databases which they wish to use in OpenOffice, this is now supported. There is a wiki page that will give you more information here, however the most often asked question is answered as per the following:

Can I use Microsoft Access databases (.mdb) in Base?

On Windows: yes. You cannot open [...]