Anyone have any idea about this? I need to do a few assignments for a computers in management class... I'd like to be able to do them from my dorm instead of going down to the library...
The worst database in recorded history is not available for the Mac (excuse my editorializing ). The last I heard from Microsoft, it will never be available for the Mac. In fact, the last I heard from Microsoft, they were delicately trying to downplay it on Windows, and mulling the possibility of dropping it from Office altogether.
If your projects actually require programming Access (*shudder*) rather than simply assembling a database (in which case mySQL would do OK) then you'll have to use a PC - real or virtual.
Technically, yes. BBEdit will open anything in a pinch.
However, if you mean opening the database in some form that actually looks like a database, I'm not aware of any way to do it. FileMaker Pro will cheerfully connect to Access through ODBC across a network, but that's the only thing I could find that comes close to what you need.
<a href="http://www.mysql.com/portal/software/html/software_comments-98.html"; target="_blank">This</a> might help. It's not ideal, I know, but it would work. I swear that there are some freeware command line things that you can install on OS X to supplement your mysql installation for this purpose, but I can't find them right now.
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If your projects actually require programming Access (*shudder*) rather than simply assembling a database (in which case mySQL would do OK) then you'll have to use a PC - real or virtual.
However, if you mean opening the database in some form that actually looks like a database, I'm not aware of any way to do it. FileMaker Pro will cheerfully connect to Access through ODBC across a network, but that's the only thing I could find that comes close to what you need.
Sorry.