A regression has brought back unwanted automatic formatting of pass-through queries in the Monaco SQL editor. Because pass-through SQL is sent directly to the server, even seemingly harmless formatting changes can alter server-specific syntax and break queries.

The issue was reported on September 15 and has been acknowledged by the Access team, with a fix planned. Current workarounds are to set the query's No Format property to True or disable the Monaco SQL editor for the database.

Access Bug Summary - September 2026 documents the regression. Microsoft previously fixed this same class of Monaco pass-through autoformatting bug in Version 2602, which confirms why preserving the SQL exactly as written matters.