MapInfo Pro lets you access data where it lives, on your machine or on the network, in flat files, such as Microsoft Excel files or MapInfo Pro native (.tab) files, in a Database Management System (DBMS), or from a web service.
This section addresses the special circumstances that surround accessing data from a SQL Server, Oracle Spatial, or PostgreSQL with PostGIS database for use with MapInfo Pro, which requires setting up a database connection.
This section also discusses how to set up your connection to Microsoft Access.
For database versions that MapInfo Pro supports, see the MapInfo Pro Install Guide.