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Microsoft Access 2016
Nassib Nassar edited this page Jul 1, 2020
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- Set up new ODBC data source in Windows:
- Navigate to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools
- Select the appropriate “ODBC Data Sources” link (32 or 64-bit)
- Click “Add”
- Choose “PostgreSQL Unicode...”
- Enter connection details and test connect. If connect is good, click “Save”
- Note: Ensure that SSL Mode is set to "require"
- Open Access
- Create a new “Blank desktop database”
- Close the empty table that has been created by default.
- Click “External Data” in the top menu
- Click “ODBC Database”
- Choose “Link to the data source by creating a linked table” and click “OK”
- In the “Select Data Source” window that opens, click the second tab found at the top of the window (“Machine Data Source”). This will give you access to the system-level ODBC connection you created earlier.
- Choose the appropriate connection.
- Click "OK"
- In the next window that opens, select some or all "public" tables (i.e. tables with names that start with "
public.
"), and click the “OK” button. - The tables will start to import.
You should now be connected to the database and can create queries.