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Asked: 2026-05-11T19:09:19+00:00

I’m building a webapp that needs to interact with a Access Database. The Access

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I’m building a webapp that needs to interact with a Access Database. The Access database is about 200 megs and I don’t want to upload the entire thing…just the contents of one table. So far, I’ve used Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access in the past on a desktop app but when I tried this on a webapp there is some cryptic permission issues on the web server(I think) that need to be ferreted out.

As far as I understand it I can
1 – upload the entire database and select the data
2 – I can use interop and figure out the permission issues

is there a 3 or 4 option?

Thanks guys.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The location of the access file doesn’t matter as long as it is accessible local or through the network and the NETWORK account of the webserver (if it is a Win2K3 or higher server otherwise it’s the ASP.NET account) has access to that location.
    So no need to download or upload anything.
    Also… the fact that your back-end is dealing with an access database shouldn’t be visible or be of any concern to the client…

    OTOH if you are looking for a solution to “manage a database through a web interface”, then maybe it’s better to look at something like this… (It’s for sql server, but migrating from access to sql server isn’t that big an issue 😉

    If you want to code it yourself, i think this post can come in handy.
    No need to interop, just use an OleDbConnection with the right connectionstring.

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