Re: Upsize no longer transfers "Required" fields to Not "Allow Nulls"

I'd not bother if the "required" field in Jet database is changed to "Allow
NULL" or not. Since Jet database and SQL Server are two different type
database engine and there are quite some differences, such as data types, it
is almost guranteed that the "Upsizing Wizard" would leave something
converted not so well. So, it almost always necessary, after the upsizing,
you still need to go through each table in SQL Server to do necessary
midifications, such as Access's "memo" would be changed to "ntext", but most
likely you'd like use "navrchar" instead, you may also want to add/set/check
primary key/index... If you do not do this and completely rely on the
"Upsizing Wizard", your new SQL Server database is unlikely optimized.


"Ed B" <EdB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5EE8196D-95F9-4A72-85BD-D1C0A3EA2D30@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi everyone,

I have been working on upsizing an Access 2000 data structure to SQL
Server
2000 using the Upsize Wizard in Access2k2/XP. I have been developing the
data structure (no data yet) in Access, upsizing, reviewing the results,
tweaking the structure in Access, then repeating.

So far so good then, all of a sudden, the Access fields that have
"Required
= Yes" stopped showing up in SQL Server with "Allow Nulls" unchecked. I
have
no idea what I may have done to cause this (I assume I did something,
since
such changes are rarely truly spontaneous!), but I have no idea what it
may
have been.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your help.


.

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