How to Migrate from Access to SQL Server 2000. Published: December 1, 2004 Writer: Adam Cogan Technical Reviewer: Jatin Valabjee Applies To: SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a (SP3a) Summary: This document details the process of upsizing a Microsoft® Access 2000 database to a Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 database using the Microsoft Upsizing Wizard. On This Page Assumptions Who Should Read This Introduction What the Upsizing Wizard Does Preparing Your Access Database for Migration Running the Microsoft Upsizing Wizard What to Do After Upsizing Your Database Conclusion Assumptions All comparisons in this paper are made with the assumption that the following software is used: Microsoft® Access 2002 or laterMicrosoft SQL Server™ 2000 Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition It is assumed that your data is currently stored in an Access database (.mdb) file, and not in SQL Server.
This paper is based on using the linked tables method of upsizing. Who Should Read This Readers should be familiar with the following features of Access: Introduction Tables Issue. Move data from Excel to Access. This article shows you how to move your data from Excel to Access and convert your data to relational tables so that you can use Microsoft Excel and Access together.
To summarize, Access is best for capturing, storing, querying, and sharing data, and Excel is best for calculating, analyzing, and visualizing data. Two articles, Using Access or Excel to manage your data and Top 10 reasons to use Access with Excel, discuss which program is best suited for a particular task and how to use Excel and Access together to create a practical solution. In this article The essence of relational databases and data modeling Many data files, including Excel, are called flat files. The time-tested solution to a flat file is a relational database. Top of Page The components of a relational table In a well-designed relational database, each table is a collection of named columns and multiple rows that stores information about a single subject, such as employees. What is Normalization? A relational table. Blogs. By Mary Chipman Overview In this blog post I’ll discuss how you can use the SSMA Migration Assistant for Access (SSMA) to refine data type mappings between Access and SQL Server, but first a little history lesson.
You can think of Access as two separate products rolled into one: the relational database engine, Jet, consisting of tables and queries, and Access application objects, consisting of forms, reports, macros and modules. Access 2007 introduced the Access Connectivity Engine (ACE), replacing Jet. It is fully backwards compatible with earlier versions of Jet, but incorporates new data types and functionality for integrating with SharePoint. Access 2010 completes the SharePoint "vision", making Access a first-class client application for SharePoint. What this means is that little work was done on Access-SQL Server integration, so much of the information available online for data type mappings between Access 2007 and SQL Server 2005 is still valid.
Open your SSMA project. Bio. Import or link Access to SQL Server data - Access. If your department or workgroup uses Microsoft SQL Server to store data, you might have to work with some SQL Server data in Access. You can bring data from SQL Server objects (tables or views) into Access in either of two ways — by importing, or by linking. The difference between the two processes is as follows: When you import the data, Access creates a copy of the SQL Server data and any later changes that are made to the data in your Access database are not reflected in the SQL Server database.
Likewise, any later changes made in the SQL Server table or view are not reflected in Access. When you link to the SQL Server data, you are connecting directly to the source data so any later changes that are made to data in Access are reflected in the SQL Server, and vice versa. This article describes how to either import or link to SQL Server data. What do you want to do? Decide whether to import or to link Situations when importing is suitable Situations when linking is suitable Top of Page.
Data Type Mapping.