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Asked: 2026-05-19T16:42:21+00:00

Here’s our situation. We’re receiving a dump of relational data in Access 2007 format.

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Here’s our situation.

We’re receiving a dump of relational data in Access 2007 format. There are quite a few tables involved. We’re writing a console app in c# to run various queries against this data. We only need read-only access – we’re not updating the Access database.

I haven’t used Access in a project since pre-Linq days, and I’m hoping we don’t have to go back to coding strings of sql against an ADO.Net connection just because the database is Access. I gather Linq 2 Sql is out of the question, but might Entity Framework be usable?

How would you approach this problem?

EDIT: The console app will be dropped by a business analyst into a folder containing the Access database, and when run will generate a text file created by querying the data. So unfortunately it’s not an option to transfer the data to Sql beforehand!

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you must keep the data into Access, you can pull it into a Dataset via ADO.NET, and then use the LINQ extension methods that work against a Dataset to work against the data.

    It’s not nearly as nice as working with SQL Server, but it does work.

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