Link SQL Server to Access

  • Using MS Access 97 SQL Server tables were linked. Some records show as #Error and the message says "The filed is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add. Try inserting or pasting less data."

    The field size in SQL Server is nvarchar(255). That is linked as Text of which size 255.

    How to avoid the error and get those records?

    THanks,

  • I think I solved that once by changing something on the form/report in Access, but it's been too many years for me to remember what it was. Is there a size setting on the form?

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  • I am not using any forms/reports. I just created a query in Access,and it gives an error described above. Basically my question would be the capability of Access to link in terms of data size.

    Thanks

  • That, I can't answer.

    My application was an Access project on an SQL database. No Access database, no linked tables, etc. Never had to deal with those.

    Hopefully, someone else will have more data on that.

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