Linking two tables from different remote MS Access DB's - vb.net

Question

I currently have a site (.net 2.0) with MS Access DB for data, within the access.mdb are 2 linked tables from another DB on the same site. - all of my code works fine and all my DB connections point to the one DB. I have a need now to achieve the same results, but don't want to create the links in the live DB. How can the same results be achieved via another method?
I looked at an example from: Syntax for Import Into from Different DBs - MS Access
My tables are large and don't think this is fastest way, I would think two connections and working with tables would be better, but I'm open to a proper way to accomplish this.
Here is my web.conf file with connections to the one DB.
<connectionStrings>
<clear />
<add name="OdbcServices" connectionString="Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};Dbq=e:\LeaveDB.mdb;" />
</connectionStrings>
My end result I need to join 2 tables from different DB's something like:
SELECT username.table1, password.table1, fullname.table2 FROM Table1 INNER JOIN [;DATABASE=Z:\Docs\Test.mdb].Table2 ON username.table1 = username.table2;

Answer 1

Rather than create an "official" linked table (TableDef object) you might get away with simply creating a View that points to the table in the other database. I just tried this in C# and it seemed to work fine:
string myConnectionString;
myConnectionString =
#"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;" +
#"Data Source=C:\Users\Public\Database1.accdb;";
using (var con = new OleDbConnection())
{
con.ConnectionString = myConnectionString;
con.Open();
using (var cmd = new OleDbCommand())
{
cmd.Connection = con;
cmd.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.Text;
cmd.CommandText =
#"CREATE VIEW otherTable AS " +
#"SELECT * FROM [;Database=C:\__tmp\main.accdb].otherTable";
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
con.Close();
}
That creates a "View" (saved query in Access) that seems to work just like a linked table.