I think I've seen this done before somewhere, but of course I can't remember where exactly.

It is possible to connect to a client side database (Access) via Javascript.
Below is a sample connecting to a database on C.

It is running a query on a table called SampleTable, and returning a recordset of 4 fields.
The sysntax may be a little odd, it very like classic ASP in how it pages through the recordset.
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