Chapter 9: Microsoft Access – Part 1

Microsoft (MS) Access is still a very popular database application that has a lot of components. Due to this, we will cover it over two chapters. In this chapter, you will learn about the MS Access application and its database architecture, the problems associated with the architecture, and how and why to improve on the architecture by migrating to a MySQL backend. You'll also learn how to provide more stability and longer life to the MS Access database application. You will start by upsizing an MS Access database to MySQL and setting up the ODBC connections to the database. After that, you will learn about some of the issues you may face when migrating databases to MySQL and how to fix or avoid them.

Finally, you will convert a sample application to use MySQL data using passthrough queries before learning how to convert an MS Access table-reliant form into an unbound form that doesn't rely on local or linked tables. By the...