Access SQL Conversion Issues?

Hi there, apologies if i have entered this into the wrong forum.

I am currently building an application using microsoft access and coding in VBA (what i can!)

When i have got it working as i like after user testing i would like to create an MDE file to distribute to users and i would like to convert the access database held on a file server to a SQL server but have no experience of doing this.

In what order would i do this and would i suffer a loss of functionality in changing from access to SQL i.e. would some of the VBA code not work in SQL?

Thanks for your time,

Rhys.

Yes, you are right, if you do not use the GUI "only", you *could* get into problems after migrating. If you already know that you will switch to the SQL Server option, you should build your application directly on top of that.

HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.

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Hello

Have you tried importing the Access database using SQL Server Integration Services (or Data Transformation Services if you use SQL Server 2000)?
I'm not sure if it works with MDE files but I would give it try.

Let us know if it works

Worf

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one thing you have to watch out are the stored procedure.

in access it looks like this

select * from employees where employee_id=?

while in SQL server it looks like this

Select * from employees where employee_id=@.employeeid