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Browse All TopicsUsing SQL Server 7.0's Export Data facility, i am trying to export a database (all tables) to Access 97.
This works fine, except for the fact that the tables that get generated in the Access DB, don't have the primary keys.
(although the source tables in SQL Server do have)
Why is this happening ?
I have tried importing data from SQL Server into the Access DB using Acess DB's import facility too...i still face the same problem.
Any help will be appreciated....
Thanks
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by: jmcraigPosted on 1999-06-12 at 13:31:40ID: 1095623
Realy nothing you can do that I have come across in my limited experience. This is because the only thing that Access shares in common with SQL is their connectivity to ODBC. They have entirely different database engines and thus entirely different ways of manipulating data. SQL has a wider range of datatypes which are not supported in the Access jet database engine. The difference in their database engines and datatypes, leads me to believe they cannot interprete each others index formats since these are specific to their individual engines. Therefore unless you are exporting from one SQL Server to another, nothing aside from the data is transfered. Basically it is like asking Access to dump a table in rich text format and expecting it to have a primary key when opened in word. Both programs can read the data but that's as far as it goes.