Linked Tables

[Fred Zuckerman]

I wonder if I am taking a shortcut that may create problems.....

I have an mdb that has an ODBC link to data on a SQL Server. I created the
link using a dsn file.
File -> Get External Data -> Link -> ODBC -> DSN file -> etc

I have since created a second mdb that also links to the same data. However,
when I created the link I used
File -> Get External Data -> Import -> linked table from first mdb
This evidently imports the link and not the table. Which I thought was fine.

Should I have created the link using
File -> Get External Data -> Link -> ODBC -> DSN file -> etc
(as I did on the first mdb)?

Are there any differences between these 2 methods?
Fred Zuckerman

[Rick Brandt]

Re: Linked Tables

Fred Zuckerman wrote:[color=blue]
> I wonder if I am taking a shortcut that may create problems.....
>
> I have an mdb that has an ODBC link to data on a SQL Server. I
> created the link using a dsn file.
> File -> Get External Data -> Link -> ODBC -> DSN file -> etc
>
> I have since created a second mdb that also links to the same data.
> However, when I created the link I used
> File -> Get External Data -> Import -> linked table from first mdb
> This evidently imports the link and not the table. Which I thought
> was fine.
>
> Should I have created the link using
> File -> Get External Data -> Link -> ODBC -> DSN file -> etc
> (as I did on the first mdb)?
>
> Are there any differences between these 2 methods?
> Fred Zuckerman[/color]

Nah. When you compact the exact same thing happens. A new file is created
and then all the objects are imported into it.


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