SQLProvider does not support MS Access databases

[financial-engineer]

Please develop support for Microsoft Access databases! Microsoft Office is a leading suite of applications enjoying widespread usage in businesses around the world, so a type provider supporting MS Access is in much demand.

[pezipink]

at the last London F# meetup, someone told me they were already working on this! :)

[forki]

WTF!?

[stabbylambda]

[forki]

I mean if this works that would be great, but I don't see Access people F#ing.

[pezipink]

Well I thought it was quite exciting for this reason - if access presents its "linked tables" as part of the schema, you could use the access provider to indirectly query across native and linked tables which can be, tables / views from other databases and remote servers, most ODBC data sources, even well formatted excel sheets and flat files. Now that would be awesome :)

[pezipink]

We now have experimental MSAccess support - closing this