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Old April 28th, 2004, 07:53 PM
Ronda
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Default How many is too many

Does anyone know the max records Access can hold before it
brings a network to its knees?
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Old April 28th, 2004, 08:03 PM
Rick B
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Default How many is too many

In the help file, type "specifications" to see the limits for your version
off access. Obviously "bringing the network to it's knees" would depend on
what you are doing. I have a database with 15,000 records. Most
queries/forms/reports run very smoothly. Some (like union tables) can take
minutes to load.

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Old April 28th, 2004, 09:20 PM
Jesper F
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Default How many is too many

I have a questionaire database (normalized like Duane
Hookom) taught us :-)
It'll have about half a million records in the answer
table.
Does anyone know if there are any problems with this
amount of records? On the plus side the big tbale only has
3 fiels:
ID, QuestionID, AnswerID
Thanks for any input.
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Old April 29th, 2004, 05:02 AM
John Vinson
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Default How many is too many

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:20:34 -0700, "Jesper F"
wrote:

I have a questionaire database (normalized like Duane
Hookom) taught us :-)
It'll have about half a million records in the answer
table.
Does anyone know if there are any problems with this
amount of records? On the plus side the big tbale only has
3 fiels:
ID, QuestionID, AnswerID
Thanks for any input.


With a unique index on ID, and nonunique indexes on the other two
fields; and with regular compaction, Access can handle this OK. The
biggest Access app of which I'm aware has a hundred times more records
than yours.

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Old April 29th, 2004, 09:49 AM
Jesper F
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Default How many is too many

With a unique index on ID, and nonunique indexes on the
other two
fields; and with regular compaction, Access can handle

this OK. The
biggest Access app of which I'm aware has a hundred

times more records
than yours.


Thank you John. Great to know. I'll just keep at it
then :-)
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Old April 28th, 2004, 09:29 PM
Kevin3NF
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Default How many is too many

No explicit limit....hard limits are on file size. I have a table with 148K
records that pretty much flies.

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