Yea, sorry - we're still running an ancient version because of issues 
trying to upgrade.
We're now looking at converting to Lightswitch instead.

I believe it should be db=DAL for current versions and the connection 
string is normally mssql://user:pwd@server/database


On Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:32:08 AM UTC-5, Simon Carr wrote:
>
> Should the connection string not start db=DAL(.....) 
>
> If not how does this method of connection allow you to leverage the 
> features of the Web2Py DAL
>
> Thanks
> Simon
>
> On Thursday, 15 November 2012 15:11:02 UTC, Willoughby wrote:
>>
>> I use SQLServer but have never tried Access (except as a linked server 
>> within SQL Server).
>> I'd imagine the connection string would look something like this:
>> db=SQLDB <http://examples/global/vars/SQLDB>(
>> 'mssql://user:user@<server>/<directory>/access.mdb')
>> Have no idea how the whole user id/password part would work 
>> though...could try it without it and see if it flies...
>>
>

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