I am looking for a JDBC thin driver for MS Access. Currently I found
only commercial ones which costs around 300 to 500 USD.  Does anybody
know some  freeware, opensource packages?
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DriverManager)?
detail data about protected constructor. Can we have protected class?
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i am createing a update string such as below
"update __ values ( ' " + var1 +" ' ) ";
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