Access as the front end and sql server as the backend

Question

I have some Access tables with many number of fields. I have migrated each access table to 6 or 7 sql server tables. I am using sql server 2008. Now I want to use Access as the

Answer 1

You will probably want to start with an empty Access database (since the table structures and any existing forms and reports will not match what you created in SQL server).

First step is to establish an ODBC connection to your SQL Server database. Then you will "link" the tables in SQL Server to your Access database.

Now, you have an Access database with all the tables that you linked from SQL Server. Those tables still "live" in SQL Server and when you edit them in Access the data will be stored in SQL Server.

You can then build Access forms and reports using these tables just as if the tables were native to Access.