One of my clients has a new SQL 2014 database and is attempting to link to it via ODBC DSN using Access 2013. The problem is that while running the link table wizard in Access, they receive the error
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'PK_dbo.mytablename' is not a valid name. Make sure that it does not include invalid characters or punctuation and that it is not too long.
This happens no matter what table they use nor what account they login with. We have even tried connecting with SA but the results are the same. There are no invalid characters in any table, column, or key and all names are shorter than 64 char (most are less than shown above).
The odd piece to this is that if I create a view of each table like this
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CREATE VIEW view_name AS SELECT * FROM dbo.mytablename
I can link to it without problem. This is driving me crazy. I am almost at the point where i...