Question Linking to another access backend (1 Viewer)

Hi all. Hopefully someone can help me out.

I want to create a vb front end/access backend system. This is a project for work that I'm using to teach myself VB. I would like to be able to take information stored in an access backend from a seperate stock control system.

Is this possible? I only require read-only access but the database I want to link to will be open and locked by the stock control system. I can't mess around with the stock control system as it wasn't created by me and I can't risk corrupting or breaking it. Will linking to it work or is there another/better method?

no you can connect to tables in that database

you will have a "live" connection that you could use to update the stock data. if you want to avoid the possibility, you could copy the stock tables into your database - and then you would not be able to accidentally modify the "true" data