RE: MS Access migration to oracle

Waleed, you saved my life! I don't know why was I expecting Access97 application designers to define minor details like the primary keys. I most certainly owe you one.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Khedr, Waleed [mailto:Waleed.Khedr_at_FMR.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:48 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: MS Access migration to oracle
>
>
> Either it's the privileges on the tables or
> the tables do not have primary keys or unique keys.
>
> Access will put the table in read only mode if it does not
> have PK or Unique
> key.
>
> Waleed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:13 AM
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>
>
> I've been told to migrate one MS-Access 97 database to oracle. Oracle
> Migration Workbench did the
> trick in an extremely clean, quick and complete way. Tables
> are created,
> populated with data and it is
> now when the problem starts. The people that were using this Access
> database were doing so by means
> of an ancient VB piece of ... code and they don't want or
> they don't know to
> adjust it. They expect the program
> to somehow find the new Oracle 8.1.7.3 instance and
> continue to work as it
> did before. I created a new access database
> containing ODBC links to the Oracle tables, but the program
> is complaining
> that the "links" are read only. Is there any way
> in this world or beyond to make these tables writable? I'm
> inclined to tell
> them that they should do some coding, which is
> very likely to make them go back to Access.
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