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Sonia - 28 Apr 2004 20:06 GMT

I'm new with Access. Is there a limit to the number of
records you can have in the database?

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tina - 28 Apr 2004 20:16 GMT

not number of records, but total table size has a limit. open Access Help,
and type

specifications

you'll get a complete listing of specs for all access objects (everything
you ever wanted to know, and more).

hth

> I'm new with Access. Is there a limit to the number of
> records you can have in the database?

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John Vinson - 29 Apr 2004 04:36 GMT

>I'm new with Access. Is there a limit to the number of
>records you can have in the database?

No explicit limit on the number of records; 2 GByte (two billion
bytes, a *lot* of data) in any single .mdb file.

In practice if you have over 10,000,000 records in your largest table
you should be seriously looking into client-server. Maybe sooner,
maybe later - I know of one Access app with some 50,000,000 records
stored in multiple .mdb files.

John W. Vinson[MVP]
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http://go.compuserve.com/msdevapps?loc=us&access=public

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