Is it possible to connect an Access form to a SQL Server view

Question

I\'m migrating an Access DB to SQL Server and everything is slowly coming along but Im not sure how to connect the Access forms to the SQL Server views.

So far I have al

Answer 1

You can't reference the Access form in a SQL View directly. You will need to rethink the logic in this. You could either create a number of Views with the appropriate values hard-coded (inadvisable) or convert the View to a Stored Procedure and pass the value in as a parameter.

For example (assuming the parameter is a string):

    create proc s_MyStoredProc

    @Location varchar(50)

    AS
    BEGIN
     SELECT 
      [AcuteHospitals].[NHSN_ID], 
      [AcuteHospitals].[HospitalName], 
      [Location_LOV].[Description] AS Location, 
      Sum([RateTable_CLABData].[clabcount]) AS [Number of CLABSI], 
      Sum([RateTable_CLABData].[numcldays]) AS [Central Line Days], 
      [RateTable_CLABData].[CLAB_Mean] AS [National Average]
   FROM 
      (([AcuteHospitals] 
         LEFT JOIN [RateTable_CLABData] 
         ON [AcuteHospitals].[NHSN_ID] = [RateTable_CLABData].[orgID]) 
         LEFT JOIN [Location_LOV] 
         ON [RateTable_CLABData].[loccdc] = [Location_LOV].[CDCLoc]) 
         LEFT JOIN [SummaryYQ_LOV] 
         ON [RateTable_CLABData].[summaryYQ] = [SummaryYQ_LOV].[StartDate]
   WHERE ((([SummaryYQ_LOV].[SummaryYQ]) = @Location ))
   GROUP BY 
      [AcuteHospitals].[NHSN_ID], 
      [AcuteHospitals].[HospitalName], 
      [Location_LOV].[Description], 
      [RateTable_CLABData].[CLAB_Mean], 
      [RateTable_CLABData].[loccdc]
   HAVING ((([RateTable_CLABData].[loccdc]) NOT LIKE '%ped%'))
   ORDER BY [AcuteHospitals].[HospitalName], [RateTable_CLABData].[loccdc]

END