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the skills or privileges to be a Microsoft SQL Server database administrator, you can still
obtain the manageability and stability benefits of storing data on the server while retaining
the use of Access. Also, the data in the linked tables is stored locally on your computer so
that you can work offline with data, and then synchronize the changes when you reconnect.
However, there are some performance issues with this approach. It does not allow you to
model some of the more complex scenarios built using Access; therefore, new with the
Enterprise edition of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is the ability to create a SharePoint site
based on an Access database, known as an Access web database. This ability is extended in
SharePoint Server 2013, with a new, completely rewritten Access Services service application,
where Access 2013 databases are published to SharePoint Server 2013 as an Access web app,
also known as Access apps. Access apps are excellent when you wish to rapidly create end-toend
web-based business solutions, including those that involve custom forms.
This chapter details the integration of SharePoint with Excel 2013 and Access 2013 apps,
as well as desktop databases. Although you can complete many of the desktop database–
related tasks documented in this chapter using previous versions, the steps and screen shots
in this chapter were created using Excel 2013 and Access 2013. If you use Microsoft Office
Excel 2010 or Microsoft Office Access 2010, your steps and screen shots will be slightly
different. See Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Step by Step by Olga Londer and
Penelope Coventry (Microsoft Press, 2010) for steps on using Access 2010 with SharePoint.
PRACTICE FILES Before you can complete the exercises in this chapter, you need to copy
the book's practice files to your computer. The practice files you'll use in this chapter are in
the Chapter12 practice file folder. A complete list of practice files is provided in "Using the
practice files" at the beginning of this book.
IMPORTANT Remember to use your SharePoint site location in place of http://
wideworldmporters in the following exercises.
Importing data from an Excel spreadsheet
to a list in SharePoint
In many situations, you might already have data within a spreadsheet, but later you find
that you need to share the data with other members of your team. SharePoint can import
data from an Excel spreadsheet into a SharePoint list. Those users who have appropriate
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