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... >> > --

