ODBC:
How to set up MS Access 97 to access your mySQL database

1. Open MS Access and create a new database.
   
2. From the file menu, choose File and then Get External Data and then Link Tables.  See figure below:
   
   
3. From "Link" window that comes up, choose ODBC Databases()
   
   
4. From the "Select Data Source" Window, choose the DSN name you've setup for your online mySQL database.  If you haven't already done so, see instructions here.  Click the OK button.
   
5. From the "Link Tables" window (image below), select the table you want to attach and click the OK button.
   
   
   
6. ODBC could prompt you for the primary key column in tha table, if it can't find it.  Specify one and that's it!  The online  mySQL table is now attached to your local access database:
   
   
7. You may open the table, update, inset or delete records.   To attach all database tables, follow the above steps for each table in your database.

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