Access databases (MS Access)

MS Access Databases - General Information

We do support MS Access databases on our Windows servers.

We support both DSN and DSN-less connections. The DSN can be set up through your Account Control Panel.

NOTE: MS Access 97 and later versions are supported. However, when possible we suggest you upgrade the database to MS Access 2000 or later. Further, we strongly suggest converting the database to MySQL or MS SQL.

Troubleshooting

800a0e7a Error

ADODB.Connection error '800a0e7a'

Provider cannot be found. It may not be properly installed.

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If you receive the error above it may be because you are on a Windows 2008 Server and need to update your connection string to use the 64-bit Access driver:

CHANGE:

Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;

TO:

Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;

80004005 Error

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified

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If you receive the error above it may be because you need to update the Access driver in your code as shown below:

CHANGE:

Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};

TO:

Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)};