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Access Limitation
Is there any way to increase the Access Index Limitation?
Number of indexes in a table 32; how to increase this value |
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No, but why would you need to? If you are building a normalized relational
database, you should not have very many tables with more than 15 or twenty fields anyway. How many fields do you have and what type of data is being stored? Why would you need to slow your database down by having it maintain more than 32 indexes? Rick B "Desmond" wrote in message ... Is there any way to increase the Access Index Limitation? Number of indexes in a table 32; how to increase this value |
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Thanks, I am currently going through ODBC to access some
tables stored on a SQL server. I thought I would use Access for the reporting feature that it has, so I was linking to the table on the SQL server when Access indicated that the table I am tryint to link has too many indexes and I should delete some. -----Original Message----- No, but why would you need to? If you are building a normalized relational database, you should not have very many tables with more than 15 or twenty fields anyway. How many fields do you have and what type of data is being stored? Why would you need to slow your database down by having it maintain more than 32 indexes? Rick B "Desmond" wrote in message ... Is there any way to increase the Access Index Limitation? Number of indexes in a table 32; how to increase this value . |
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You might try one of the following:
1. Create a view in SQL Server of the table and then in Access link to the view instead of the table. Note that, by default, the linked view will not be updatable. If you need it to be updatable, you need to define a "pseudo index" *in Access* to identify which the field(s) whose values uniquely identify each record. See the "CREATE INDEX Statement" help topic in Access for more information. 2. If you cannot (or don't want to) create a view in SQL Server, but you can live with the table being not updatable, you might try creating a pass-through query in Access instead of linking to your table (or view). Pass-through queries are not updatable. See the "Send commands to an SQL database using a pass-through query" help topic in Access for more information. Hope this helps. "Desmond" wrote in message ... Thanks, I am currently going through ODBC to access some tables stored on a SQL server. I thought I would use Access for the reporting feature that it has, so I was linking to the table on the SQL server when Access indicated that the table I am tryint to link has too many indexes and I should delete some. -----Original Message----- No, but why would you need to? If you are building a normalized relational database, you should not have very many tables with more than 15 or twenty fields anyway. How many fields do you have and what type of data is being stored? Why would you need to slow your database down by having it maintain more than 32 indexes? Rick B "Desmond" wrote in message ... Is there any way to increase the Access Index Limitation? Number of indexes in a table 32; how to increase this value . |
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:17:29 -0700, "Desmond"
wrote: I was linking to the table on the SQL server when Access indicated that the table I am tryint to link has too many indexes and I should delete some. I had this error come up when trying to use ODBC to connect to a MySQL database once; it turned out to be a problem with the ODBC driver itself. John W. Vinson[MVP] (no longer chatting for now) |
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