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 Posted by NickName on 06/22/06 21:49 
Thanks, good to know, last time (probably a little over half a year 
ago) when I tried this approach of using Access Upgrade Wizard, it did 
not convert relationships, keys etc. 
Too bad, I can't use this approach at this point because the server 
machine does not have Access installed and I can't do that without a 
license etc. etc.  While using the SQL Server import facility is an 
option.  I wrote a script to automatically create a PK for each user 
table (good thing the current Access db has a good patent for PKs), but 
this is a very desirable option though for one thing the relationships 
are not there, not too sure it would be easy to automatically create 
FKs. 
 
MGFoster wrote: 
> NickName wrote: 
> > This question probably has been asked many a time.  And yet I feel it 
> > is still relevant for one thing a search on this NG does not produce a 
> > desirable answer. 
> > It is kind of disappointing that MS would not be able to transfer ER 
> > relationship from an Access db to a SQL Server 7/2000-based one, the 
> > upgraded db/imported tables sitting on the SQL Server would not have 
> > PKs, say, you have 100 user tables, you have to first recreate PKs for 
> > each of them then set up relationship between/among them, quite time 
> > consuming.  Do you have a better way? 
> 
> Use the MS Access Upsizing wizard (Tools > Database Utilities > Upsizing 
> wizard).  It will convert all relationships, PKs, FKs and indexes from 
> the Access DB to the SQL DB. 
> -- 
> MGFoster:::mgf00 <at> earthlink <decimal-point> net 
> Oakland, CA (USA)
 
  
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