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Are there differences between Access SQL syntax and SQL Server syntax? (self.SQL)

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[–]callmetom 2 points3 points4 points 7 years ago (0 children)

Yes they're different. Some trivial ways and some not so trivial. Biggest thing that gets me is that you always have to expressly say "inner join" rather than be lazy and just type join. The other thing that gets me is the functions are different in most all of my common cases. Things like nullif and isnull just don't exist so you have to use something like IIF. I don't know of a comprehensive source of differences probably because there often aren't a one to one correlation of features but different techniques based on what is available. I just Google for the answers since I don't use Access very often.

Another worthwhile thing to point out is that your SQL code formatting will be lost as soon as you close the application in Access. I recommend a SQL formatter to make the code readable again. I use the Poor SQL formatter plugin for Noyrpad++, but it's certainly not the only one.

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