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Limit to Number of Tables
In order to facilitate the export of data to Excel, I will be creating tables, appending data to these tables, exporting to Excel and then killing the tables. Is there a limit to the number of tables that can be created over the lifetime of a database, even if those tables are ultimately deleted?
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Limit to Number of Tables
No, I don't think so. However, this can bloat the database, requiring
frequent compacting. One thing I do to avoid this is programmatically create a temporary DATABASE, create tables there, link them into my application, do my importing, then kill the whole temp database. On my website (see sig below) is a small sample database called "ImportToTempDatabase.mdb" which illustrates how. -- --Roger Carlson www.rogersaccesslibrary.com Reply to: Roger dot Carlson at Spectrum-Health dot Org "T'Kai" wrote in message ... In order to facilitate the export of data to Excel, I will be creating tables, appending data to these tables, exporting to Excel and then killing the tables. Is there a limit to the number of tables that can be created over the lifetime of a database, even if those tables are ultimately deleted? Thank you for your help. |
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