Thank you for your reply.
Just to clarify...
We don't need to load Access at all. We don't need to view forms, tables or anything else.
We have a custom application that needs to make an ODBC connection to query an .accdb or .mdb file which was created by Access.
Do we need to have...
If I have an .accdb or .mdb Access DB file do I have to have Access installed to perform queries using ODBC?
Everything is local (MS Windows Server 2003), but we might move the DB files to another server - would Access need to be installed at all and if so, on the machine with the DB files or...