Microsoft Access is a powerful database that is part of the Microsoft Office package, and by combining its user-friendly interface with the flexibility of SQL (Structured Query Language), you can ...

You can query across databases in Oracle and Sql Server, with a little work. I'm not sure about access. <BR>It really would be easier to just link the tables I would think.

You can’t upsize Access tables that contain dates earlier than January 1, 1953. Use saved queries as opposed to SQL statements as the data sources for Access objects.

Create a query from within Access that attaches to my SQL Server and retrieves the recordset. I'd likely use the same technique I applied in this thread. <BR>2.

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...

The APIs would automatically be queryable, albeit arguably not joinable with the elegance that SQL affords. But these two services, like most, don’t present a unified interface to their APIs.

SQL Server 2016 provides new support for working with JSON objects. In a previous column, I discussed how to generate JSON from SQL queries. This column looks at the reverse process: accepting JSON ...