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Are rows stored in fixed or variable length records.



 
 
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Old February 9th, 2010, 03:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Dennis
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Default Are rows stored in fixed or variable length records.

Hi,

This is just a point of curiosity for me. I realize that Access works the
Access works.

Does any one know if the rows are stored in the database as fix length
record or as variable length records?


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Old February 9th, 2010, 04:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Jeff Boyce
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Dennis

Second-hand, take w/ salt ...

Access fields are variable length, consuming as much space as is needed for
the data contained therein. My hunch is this makes the records variable
length as well.

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Hi,

This is just a point of curiosity for me. I realize that Access works the
Access works.

Does any one know if the rows are stored in the database as fix length
record or as variable length records?


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Dennis



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Old February 9th, 2010, 04:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Jerry Whittle
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Variable. If you make a text field size of 255, but only put in 4 characters,
it only uses 4 characters of space.

However don't make everything 255 characters as the wizards look at that
value when creating text boxes on your forms and reports.
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"Dennis" wrote:

Hi,

This is just a point of curiosity for me. I realize that Access works the
Access works.

Does any one know if the rows are stored in the database as fix length
record or as variable length records?


--
Dennis

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Old February 14th, 2010, 07:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Dennis
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Default Are rows stored in fixed or variable length records.

Jeff, Jerry,

Thanks for the info and the educationl.

Dennis


 




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