M$ "stole" the idea from the developer and didn't/wouldn't pay for licensing. They lost the court case and had to remove the capability, which they did via Office updates. So if you were using it (as was I) things broke. Interesting that after losing, they could have done the right thing and paid, but that's why I call them M$.
Suggest you keep the linked table (which will provide automatic synching) and copy the data from it to a local table in your db. If you don't want to over-write or duplicate data, prevent that in your query/table design.
The more we hear silence, the more we begin to think about our value in this universe.
Paraphrase of Professor Brian Cox.