[dba-SQLServer] Link odbc tables in Access

Borge Hansen pcs.accessd at gmail.com
Sun Jul 31 08:38:02 CDT 2011


John,
How about defining all your tables that you want to link to in your SQL Db
in a hidden local table in your frontend and then use some vba re-linker
code that travels all the records (table names) in the local table and drops
and re-links the SQL Db tables.
Then you can forget about the one billion other tables.
And using the re-linker code you can link directly to tables in the SQL
Db removing the "dbo_" prefix....which may be of benefit if you have a lot
of queries that reference tables from back when they perhaps lived as access
.mdb backend tables....
Just a suggestion.
Regards
Borge

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:57 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> When I link to SQL Server from Access using a DSN file, I end up with my
> tables displayed but also about a billion (sorry, I didn't count) tables
> that start with INFORMATION_SCHEMA_.xyz.  At this time I have no use for
> those tables and would like to filter them out so that I cannot see them.
> Does anyone know how to do that?
>
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