Linking To SQL Server
Sep 20, 2006
Strewth didn't think I was ever going to work with Access again, but I am, so here comes a table link question for you.
Got an access xp FE linking to SQL server via a DSN file. All linked up fine, however the tables in access have been given a 'dbo_' prefix to the original table name in SQL server. :rolleyes:
How to get rid off?
A setting in the DSN file?
Some VBA to loop through each table and rename?
Linked table manager which I haven't got round to installing yet?
Thanks
Dan
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Jan 3, 2008
Hi,
Current situation:
We have various departments using a Db and some of the users have drive mappings to different to others (company reasons). So far we have had to create different front-ends for each section, not very useful for updates etc.
What I'd like:
To be able to link to the tables on the server using the server name and not a specific drive letter.
My question:
Is this possible some how?
Would using SQL server for the back end be a way of getting round this issue?
Thanks for any assistance as usual
Matt
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Nov 8, 2004
Hi Guys,
I am new to this forum and I am hoping you can help. I have produced an Access 97 database on a PC on the hard drive (C I have sent this to a client but he cannot run it as the backend data files are in C: and he is running the whole access programme on the R: drive. As the front end is an MDE file is there anyway I could write the path to the linked files so that access can find them automatically. The same problem applies with the help files, how can you define the location of the help files when you don't know the end users server location?
Any advice would be most welcome.
Regards
Chris
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Jun 8, 2006
In Access can I link to a SQL Server view? I am currently linking to the
SQL Server tables in my database and don't have any views. But if I can link to views I could give the workgroup permissions in Access to the views, not to the primary tables. This would provide some added security from the user who bypasses my switchboard forms and goes to modify the Access tables directly.
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Aug 28, 2012
I want to work on SQL Server tables located at my work place at home using Access. My question is; is it possible to link SQL Server tables on a server to my lap top computer using "Remote Desktop" or will I need to install Access onto the server and if tables can be linked using Remote Desktop how do I link them? I am using Access 2010 and have Windows 7 professional installed on my lap top.
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Sep 18, 2013
I have a windows 7 machine with Access 2000 installed. I need to link to some tables on an SQL server and "SQL Server" does not appear in the dropdown of available link types. I think a driver is missing. I did a clean install of Office 2000 and only selected MS Access. Maybe that prevented everything needed from being installed. I would like to add just the missing driver if possible.
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Nov 27, 2013
I have a access DB for my employees with pictures. The main form displays their info and a picture as I scroll page to page. But I also have contact report that will show all info and picture. I am having difficulties linking the pictures from a seperate folder on my server.
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May 20, 2013
I am attempting to link a table in one database to another database using the server name designation (ie.//2sxfprinff01Group) instead of the mapped network name (ie. G:). I tried relinking using the Access Link Manager. Right click on the linked table. But it does not let you edit the link.
Access 2007 does not allow this and reverts links to the G: drive. There are situations where the the IT department have set the mappings to this shared location as an H: for some of the employees. In those cases, the employee gets an error message telling them that Access cannot locate the G: drive.
An obvious solution is to get the employees remapped to the G: drive. However, one would think that MS would have allowed for mapping to the designated location and not an alias.
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Nov 30, 2006
Using A2002 or A2003, trying to convert an app from Jet to SqlServer
i am using DAO rather than ADO
this statement causes an error
Set rs = dbs.OpenRecordset("tblconstants", , dbSeeChanges)
the error is
error 3622 - must use dbseechanges on a sql server table with identitiy bit set
alternatively
Set rs = dbs.OpenRecordset("tblconstants", dbOpenDynamic)
produces error 3001 - invalid argument
(Note: i've got another app, in A97 that works with sql server tables without any additional parameters )
Set rs = dbs.OpenRecordset("tblconstants") works in A97
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any idea what do i need to do please
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Feb 18, 2007
Hi. hope you can understand my english.
I have 2 SQL Servers.
Is there some way to set to which sql server connect the .adp (or .ade) via code??
Now I have 2 sql servers (development and production).. but soon I will have more server at production in different cities. All SQL Servers have different names. Same databases names but the servername are all different.
So I have to configure the connection of the .ade in the the development server. Then when I want to send and upgrade to one of my clients, I have to go to his city and manually reconfigure the .ade to connect to his SQL Server.
This problem would be solved if all SQL Servers had the same name, but this is not my case.
It would be nice to have a config.ini file or something like that where the .ade could read the name of the server to connect to.
Is it possible to implement something like this.
Thanks in advance.
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Sep 6, 2004
Hi, i am looking at making use of SQL Server which we have at work to run our access Database from, is this a good idea ?
what are the benifits, problems etc...
Andy
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Nov 14, 2004
I am trying to insert a picture in a field OLE object, but after I have selected the picture I would like to insert, I get the following error message :
A problem occured while MS Access was communicating with the OLE server or ActiveX Control.
Can someone help me to resolve this problem ?
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Apr 19, 2005
I've never dealt with SQL Server, and have no working knowledge of it. Is it possible to upsize my db without it? The server that we have uses Windows 2000 Server as it's OS, would this be capable of housing an upsized db? I was tols that MSDE is only capable of about 15 concurrent users, and I will be having +-100 concurrent users on this particular db. Is there another option?
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Mar 25, 2007
Hi guys, its been awhile. I inherited a database thats an MDB and I need to get it on to sql server but I am having problem with this query, can anyone help please. Its suppose to give you the month and year when you click on it, you just put that in and up come the results on a query or report, now I have something similar to this but the code is very different.
SELECT DISTINCTROW Format$([Main Table].Date,'yyyy') AS [Date By Year], [Main Table].[Violation Type], Sum([Main Table].Loss) AS [Sum Of Loss], Count([Main Table].[Violation Type]) AS [CountOfViolation Type]
FROM [Main Table]
GROUP BY Format$([Main Table].Date,'yyyy'), [Main Table].[Violation Type], Year([Main Table].Date)
HAVING (((Year([Main Table].[Date]))=[Please Enter the Year]));
This gives them a dialog box which ask them for month and year and they enter it in and they get a generated report or form which gives them their results. But when I transfer this to SQL it gives me error message cause Jet SQL and SQL Server dont exatly speak the same language, I mean SQL server doesnt know what Format$ is I guess thats something ACCess comes up with on its own or something, I dont know. HELP PLEASE!!??
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Jul 20, 2005
I've downloaded and installed the new SQL server 2005 express edition CTD (June ed.) along with the Express Manager.
How do i get an access database into SQL server?
Now that it's installed, what next? When i try to upsize, it asks me to choose a server, and gives 3 options, and i'm not sure where they come from. Where does this list come from? are they previous installations of the MSDE on my computer? are they servers that ar available over our LAN?
i read that the default name if an instance of SQL server express is SQLEXPRESS but that's not on the list...
do i need to create a new instance of SQL server on my computer to house the database?
I really just want to try it, to see if it's something we should do, but i can't get it to do anything at all. i don't know where to start...
I've done some searches, but nothing tells me where to start. I'm getting really frustrated with this....
Please help me...
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Jan 31, 2006
Hi,
This is the first tim here, hope to find what I am looking for :D
I am developing a small form in MS Access for recording attendence. I made a form and a buton which get the time and store it in a table.
The problem happens when a user change the his computer time and click the button, the new time will be recorded.
The question is how to fix the time or get the time from a centeral computer or server?
Note the DB will be placed on a shared PC or on a server in the LAN.
Thanks,
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Mar 16, 2006
I have A db that links to a SQL Server table via an odbc connection. The problem is that I have to set up the odbc datasource on each machine that needs to run the db. Can I set up an ADO connection to the table and use that connection as a record source through out the app to drive forms , reports, etc? (And this would eliminate the need to set up and odbc connection to the table on each machine...) :confused: :confused:
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Apr 19, 2006
Oracle Express Edition, DB2 Express Edition-C, and SQL Server Express Edition.Which one would you develop for / work with if you had a choice (SQL Server, Oracle, or DB2)?I am thinking of making a database application with one of the above and the criteria is:Great support, communityRock Solid and stable; where some clients do not have a DBAFastEasy to back-up and restoreRelatively easy to program and developEasy to deploy and scaleThe general direction I am getting from a few people is leaning toward SQL Server Express. They say it is easier to work with than Oracle, (supposedly Oracle is not for the faint hearted especially when there are network issues) but Oracle is faster and maybe more stable than the others. Haven't really heard anything about DB2...MySQL is out, simply because of the price of an OEM for a desktop application that can be expanded later is too high for what I want to do.Thoughts?Thanks
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Oct 11, 2006
I've been asked to assist a local non-profit transfer an Access DB to a new server. The DB was set up a number of years ago and the designers are no longer available.
The old server is set up as a workgroup server, and the new server is set up as a domain server. (I am completely unfamiliar with how networks are set up...I've never dealt with this end before.)
The designers set up a .mdw file which (I believe) controls permissions etc. After much wrangling, we finally uncovered the admin password. However, even signed in on a workstation as the admin w/ full rights, I still can't copy a functional version of the DB to removable media in order to move it to the new server.
The server does not have MS Access loaded....only the .mdb and .mdw files.
I *think* I have to replace the 'secured' .mdw file with a generic, clean .mdw. Do I need to do this on the server, or the workstations, or both?
What am I doing wrong????
Thanks!
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Jan 30, 2007
Hi all,
I have an .adp that works fine on a number of people's laptops.
One of the users however, keeps getting an error message stating that SQL Server does not exist or access has been denied.
This particular user is definitely setup on SQL Server with dbo permissions. She can also ping the server.
I have tried creating a DSN and this doesn't work either.
I am at a loss as to why this error message is occurring given that she can see the Server and has definitely been setup.
Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Kabir
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Apr 20, 2007
I'm planning make a move from Access to SQL Server.
To be honest I never used it before, but I told to my bosses that I'm a Gooroo in it.:)
So can you guys give me an idea if it is really hard to make a move, to upload the existing databases and to get used to it.
How long it takes?
What books would you recommend?
Or what forum?
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Jun 11, 2007
Dear All,
I have developed a full attendance and payroll system.
I want to make this system available for responding remotely as well through email and SMS.
Thus, I am planning to attach a GSM modem into the server hosting the system, and assigning a fixed telephone no. The client can send SMS to this server, which in turn respond to his request.
To make this, I should also install a third party software through which I can access to the Incoming and outgoing SMSs database using MS Access coding.
I have got such third party software called Activexperts SMS Messaging Server. However, the software license is $ 1,400 which is expensive for me.
Thus, can you suggest me another software name I can use to handle such job.
Thanks,
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Jun 18, 2007
Hello, I am new to this forum and hope someone will be able to help me.
I understand that when querying using a split MS Access database it retrieves all the data to the client machine and then applies the criteria (hope this is correct) at the client side.
If I were to link to Oracle XE tables via ODBC, does a query using these linked tables still bring across all the records to the client or will it run the query on the server and just bring down the records matching that criteria?
Many thanks in advance...
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Nov 2, 2007
Is it same thing about speed and other issues to have ADP application that works with SQLserver and to have a MDB (or MDE) application that has no querys but works with sql views instead?
Thanks
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Dec 5, 2007
We're currently looking at changing a couple of my more complex Access 2003 databases to Access Front End with a SQL Server Back End. This should give us better stability and reduce network traffic loads. I was looking at the Access help file on Upsizing and came across the following paragraph. On face value to a novice like me this would seem the easy option - but is it?
"Create an Access database front-end to an SQL Server database back-end so that you can create a front-end/back-end application.
This approach requires very little application modification since the code is still using the Jet database engine. "
Would anyone recommend this approach?
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Feb 13, 2006
I have an Access 2000 database that is linked to a SQL server back end. One of the tables has 4 OLE object fields into which we insert bitmaps of the client's logo. We do this by right-clicking on the field and then going to Insert Object > Create from File and then select the .bmp file to be inserted. This works fine when I do it on my site, but when I connect to the customer's machine using PC Anywhere and try to do it on his machine, I get a message saying that the OLE Server isn't registered.
I've searched on the error message and all the answers say that they apply to Access 2002 and 2003.
What might be causing it in Access 2000 and how do I fix it?
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