Migrating Access 2007 to SQL Server 2014
There comes a time in every SQL Server dba’s life when they will have to consolidate an MS Access database to an SQL Server. It’s inevitable and destiny decided that it was my turn today. A heavily used Access database which had almost grown beyond its capacity sealed my fate. It had about 1.2 GB of data and had become extremely slow at executing queries, which was something we could no longer ignore. This was the first Access database I was going to migrate, so I started by doing some research on the good old internet.
