There is no connection type specific to Microsoft SQL Server. Instead, you connect to the database using an Open Database Connectivity, or ODBC, connection.

A few best practices can go a long way toward protecting your Access data from careless or overly curious users. Here are some simple ways to add a few layers of security to a database.

Microsoft Access allows business and other large, data-sharing entities to create databases storing vast amounts of information. Anyone using Access can share these database files with one another.

Don't have access to Access? You can use Excel to open the database you want, using the MS Query Wizard. Here's how to multitask using Office's versatile spreadsheet program.

In Microsoft Access, you can open another database, close a database without exiting Access, save a database with another name, you can even rename an object or delete an object.

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This issue occurs when Microsoft Access does not trust the database from which the macro is run. Recent versions of Access open databases that are not trusted in Disabled mode.