Migrating an Access app to SQL Server 2005 Express

  • We've got an old (~8 years old) VB6 application which I'm going to be re-writing (YEAH! - it will be great to get away from VB6!).  In this re-write I want to also get away from MS Access and use SQL Server 2005 Express.  How do I get started at this?  How do I migrate our Access database to SQL Express?  I've also got SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition on my development PC, will that cause a problem?  Can I access SQL Express using SQL Server Management Studio, from SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition?  Or do I have to use Visual Studio 2005 in order to access it?

     

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  • this may help you out:

    http://www.microsoft.com/sql/solutions/migration/access/default.mspx

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  • Yes, you can access SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with the Management Studio from SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition.

  • Thank you, jezemine and SRB.

     

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  • also, you can manage express with SSMS no problem.

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