Your application indirectly authenticates and connects with your Access database through SQL Server and the OLE DB Provider for Jet database engine.

Linking Vs. Importing Files in Access. Microsoft introduced its Access database product about 20 years ago, and it remains popular due to its ability to link and import data from a variety of ...

Access isn't a network database server, the only way you can manipulate an access database over the network is by opening the file via a network share and access scales really poorly.<BR><BR>If ...