I know nothing about databases. I am not a database guy. Databases are as foreign to me as wins are for the Colorado Rockies. That being said, here we go...<BR><BR>We have a computer running Microsoft ...

Microsoft Access provides tools that make it relatively easy to load data from a variety of external data sources and in many different formats. There is no connection type specific to Microsoft SQL ...

I'm new at this whole DBA thing, so maybe this is totally standard practice.<BR><BR>But we have a software vendor that wants remote access to our SQL server at an admin level to setup and install ...