Can I use MS Access with SQL Server?

Can MS Access run on a server?

You can use Access with a database server product such as SQL Server to share your database. This method offers you many benefits, but does require additional software — a database server product.

Should I use SQL Server or Access?

If your website database data is medium to large size, the right choice would be SQL Server. However, there are many instances where using Access makes more sense. If your data is smaller instead of medium or large, then using Microsoft Access would be the better choice, and using SQL Server would be overkill.

Can you run SQL query in Access?

To see how your query is created in sql when you create it in query design, let us open your database. Select the Query Design from the Create tab and add the tblEmployees table. Select the field you want to see as query result and then run your query. You can now see all the employee information as query result.

Can MS Access Open SQL files?

Microsoft Access connects to the MySQL server and displays the list of tables (objects) that you can import. Select the tables you want to import from this Import Objects dialog (or click Select All), and then click OK.