I am very new to access and have been asked to design a form on my website to input information into the database. I have done this in jsp. The problem I have is that the file attachment was entered into the database through a jdbc and cannot be directly viewed from the database. Does anyone know how I could view this file in the database as at the moment it is just stored as long binary data. The file can be a document or a gif/bmap/jpeg etc. If I do double click on the file the following message appears: A problem occured when Microsoft Access was communicating with the OLE server of ActiveX control.