Migration via SSIS from MS Access to SQL---Need Help

  • could someone please help me connecting Access db via ssis. I am new to this migration and I need to migrate access db to sql server 2008 and i was thinking of using import/export. When i try to connect to access db via import/export it gives me three options

    Access db file path -- I know the path

    Username and Password ---would like to know what username/password do i need to use here. Is it my windows authantication which i use to log in to the servers or do i need get Access password. Do i have to request from access adminstrator? Plese help

    Please Please Help..........

  • if its a migration you want to do ...why not go into the access mdb itself and do an export to Sql Server...much easier...why use an ssis package ?

    I seem to remember Access tries to make the best guess on the data types it imports....

    all text comes out as nvarchar etc. What I would do is to get the stuff into staging tables

    and then create the proper tables in sql server and then use sql to do inserts from staging into the

    corresponding target tables...

  • Thank you so much robinrai3 ! it was really helpful. I just want to try different options to migrate from MS Access to SQL server and that’s why I am still trying to figure out the answer of original question. Would you be able to help me here?

    Original questions

    When I try to connect to access db via import/export it gives me three options

    Access db file path -- I know the path

    Username and Password ---would like to know what username/password I need to use here. Is it my windows authentication which I use to log in to the servers or do I need get MS Access password? Do I have to request from access administrator? Please help

  • If you are not using Access WorkGroup security, the default user name is Admin and the password is blank.

  • Thank you so much WILLIAM ! That worked !!

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