modify SQL TABLE structure with Access link

  • Has any member ever modified a table structure of a database linked to an Access database?  if so how do you do it without having to delink the two?  I need to add an extra variable either in access/sql(EM).

    Thanks,

    Allan.

  • If your using a straight linked table within ACCESS, you cannot do it without re-linking the table, as it performs the link using the objectID of the table in SqlServer.

    Another way to perform the same basic function, without having to re-link tables, is to use pass through queries as your data view. You can reference the passthrough query in other queries, and not need a linked table. This has no reliance on objectid, so doesn't break anything when the table is dropped and recreated on SQL.

  • It is an ODBC link which i have successfully managed to modified the struture from the SQL - EM and then refreshed the link with the access and it has worked.  Thanks,

    Allan.

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