I don't have much Access experience, and I took on a new Access project. I can use SQL to query the Access databases.
What SQL specification/flavor is used inside Access? Is it the same as SQL Server?
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I don't have much Access experience, and I took on a new Access project. I can use SQL to query the Access databases.
What SQL specification/flavor is used inside Access? Is it the same as SQL Server?
Best Answer
For full details read the docs: Microsoft Access SQL reference
MS Access definitely is not the same as SQL Server. The overall syntax is similar as any flavor of SQL, but it doesn't have a lot of features that were added since SQL Server 2005.
It doesn't even have some pretty basic features, like:
On the other hand, it has enhanced features, like:
Window functions that were added since SQL Server 2005+, such as
ROW_NUMBER
,OVER
clause don't exist as well.Set of built-in functions for string or date/time manipulation are similar, but they are not the same.