Comments on: Quickly Link SQL Server Tables in Access

By: johnfx

johnfx — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:26:49 +0000

As opposed to what, exactly? Linking tables always seems to work just fine for me.

If you have seen any information to the contrary, please come back and give me a link, but as far as I am concerned this is as good a technique as any.

What you may be confusing is that using an Access DB as a backend can be problematic over unreliable network connections or with large numbers of concurrent users. However, those problems have nothing to do with using Access as a front-end with linked tables to another RDBMS.

By: Hendra

Hendra — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:10:58 +0000

Thanx a lot John…do you always use linking tables method ? i’ve heard a lot issues that linking tables is not recomended for network and multi user…i have not tried Lingking Tables in the network….

By: johnfx

johnfx — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:13:30 +0000

Just change the connection string in BuildSQLConnectionString to the appropriate one for your MySQL Server. It should work without modifications to the rest of it.

By: Hendra

Hendra — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:31:31 +0000

Hi…
I’ve been looking for this codes…how can i use it to MySql as Back End

By: johnfx

johnfx — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:30:25 +0000

I think that depends more on the DB platform than the cloud. I haven’t worked with Azure very much yet, but with Amazon and most other Hardware-as-a-service providers it should be no different than working against a DB server in a remote part of the building. You just have to make sure to configure the “virtual” firewall correctly for whatever ports/protocols you expect to communicate with the DB over.

By: Michael Waddell

Michael Waddell — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:17:50 +0000

Nice article. I, too, have old, deep MS Access roots and developed routines for linking. Now, in the 21st century, the question I have is — do you know if Azure (or other SQL in the cloud, like Amazon) supports linking from desktop to cloud?