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I have an MS Access 2003 DB with a SQL Backend. &nbsp;Everything has been working great until recently when I migrated the back-end data from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 and changed the ODBC data source from SQL Server to SQL Native Client. &nbsp;Now, I receive spurious failures when trying to open forms and reports. &nbsp;The error I receive is error 3151, ODBC--connection to &lt;odbc name&gt; failed. &nbsp;<br />
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Is there some sort of compatibility issue with MS Access 2003 and the SQL Native Client driver? &nbsp;
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I have an MS Access 2003 DB with a SQL Backend.  Everything has been working great until recently when I migrated the back-end data from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 and changed the ODBC data source from SQL Server to SQL Native Client.  Now, I receive spurious failures when trying to open forms and reports.  The error I receive is error 3151, ODBC--connection to <odbc name> failed.  

Is there some sort of compatibility issue with MS Access 2003 and the SQL Native Client driver?  

Problems connecting to DB after switching to SQL Native Client

Microsoft Access is a rapid application development (RAD) relational database tool. Access can be used for both desktop and web-based applications, and uses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as its coding language.