in reply to How to link Ms-access data's in perl
If you are dealing with Memo fields from Access then you may find it best to create ADO objects directly. Here are nodes I wrote on these sometime in the distant past. They should provide a start point if you need it:
The above will show you how to connect, query and, if required, grab the insertion id of a new record if your logic requires it.
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