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    dhartley is offline Novice
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    Can you run a query against sql server and save the results in access?

    First of all, hello and I apologise if this has already been answered but I haven't been able to find a solution through my research.

    I was wondering if it is possible to run a query against SQL Server and then save the results into a new access database? I was thinking this could be done through VBA but I'm not sure where to start. Any ideas?



    Thanks

    Dave

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    JoeM is offline VIP
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    One way would be to create an ODBC connection to your SQL database.
    Then, you could create a new Access database in which you use a Pass-Through query to run the query against the SQL database (using the ODBC connection).
    You can make that query a Make Table Query to write the results to a new Access table in your Access database.

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    dhartley is offline Novice
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    Thanks Joe, got it sorted now.

    First of all I created a Query that was a pass through query.
    Then I created a Query that was a make table query - this query ran the Query above and put the results into a table.

    One problem I had was that it kept asking me what DSN to use - I found out that you can set the OBDC Connect Str on the query Property Sheet to stop this happening.

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    JoeM is offline VIP
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    Yep, you got it! That is usually how I do it.

    Glad you got it to all work out.

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