Is there any freeware tool available to convert MS Excel files to MS Access DB files that woks for both 2003 and 2007 formats?
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Is there any freeware tool available to convert MS Excel files to MS Access DB files that woks for both 2003 and 2007 formats?
If you have Access running on the computer you can open the spreadsheet in Access to create a new database from it, or use “Import Data” to import the Excel spreadsheets into tables. If it’s a big deal, use Office Automation to speed the process up.
Otherwise, the Access Connectivity Engine (ACE) is an ODBC driver that can connect to both Access and Excel files. You could write something to transfer data between them. It’s free but a bit of work.
Alternatively you could use SSIS, which is also free with SQL Server Express edition. But certainly a lot of overhead just to convert between files.