In Build 2205 Some (not all) Access Linked tables to SQL server stop working.

Fritz Vedder 1 Reputation point
2022-05-26T13:04:12.693+00:00

In build 2204 all Access linked tables worked fine, but now my users get updates and 20% of my Access linked tables are not working displaying every row/field with: "#Delete". Rolling back every workstation seems like a short term gain as we don't seem to have control over stopping the updates.

What patch or settings change must I deploy to fix this?
What exactly changed in Access so that if needed I can rebuild SQL server tables to allow the link to work?
(In the mean time I have been working to isolate what could be triggering this failure. It does not seem to be as simple as a data type or a size issues like MAX....)
What other possible fixes or workarounds are available?

The seems to affect both 2016 and 365 instances of the 2205 build, in our environment.

As a side note when the linked table is open from the object browser, it shows all data as "#Deleted" as I described above, however if I loop through a DAO Records set based on that link it pulls data fine..... Why?

Let me know if this belongs in another place and what that place is.

Thanks for any help...

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  1. Fritz Vedder 1 Reputation point
    2022-05-27T17:20:49.593+00:00

    Thanks Emilyhua, Is the did you change the tag or is it that you are suggesting that I change it as it currently appears to be "office-access-dev"?

    My issue has been resolved, the problem it turns out is only on tables that have a nvarchar datatype as the primary key... Not sure why build 2205 is not playing well with the driver we were using, but ODBC driver 17 should fix this..

    https://codekabinett.com/rdumps.php?Lang=2&targetDoc=msaccess-bug-v2205-odbc-deleted-nvarchar-primary-key

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