How to make a passthrough / passthru query editable?

Question

In the Microsoft Access 2007 with an SQL Server Backend, we usually take a linked table from the SQL Server as Form.RecordSource of an editable form for a single table data

Answer 1

There is an easier non well documented way to open any SQL Server Select Statement (a table, a view or a sql-select with many joined tables) in a MsAccess query window and be editable/updatable:

Open an Access query window and enter your SQL Statement. Replace the table name(s) with the full ODBC string to the SQL Server inside square brackets, following by a dot and the schema and table name like in the following example:

Before:

SELECT SOH.SalesOrderID, SOH.OrderDate
FROM   Sales.SalesOrderHeader as SOH 

After:

SELECT SOH.SalesOrderID, SOH.OrderDate
FROM   [ODBC;Driver=SQL Server;Server=myServer;Database=AdventureWorks2012;Trusted_Connection=Yes;MarsConn=yes;].Sales.SalesOrderHeader as SOH 

The Query is now updatable:

Remarks:

• Not every SQL Statement makes a table or view updatable. For limitations and restrictions see the section 'Updatable Views' in CREATE VIEW (Transact-SQL) (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187956.aspx).
• The underlying table you want to be updatable in Access must have a timestamp or RowVersion column.