DSN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_Source_Name

Creating a DSN under Windows XP:
Create a DSN under Windows...
(just google for other M$ Versions.)

Then you can use normal SQL-queries, maybe they differ from Mysql a little (Think to have heard something like this??!). Just google a bit for that syntax, should be pretty much the same

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