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MS Access Forum / Database Design / April 2004How many is too many
Does anyone know the max records Access can hold before it brings a network to its knees? 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. Rick B Does anyone know the max records Access can hold before it brings a network to its knees? 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. >I have a questionaire database (normalized like Duane >Hookom) taught us :-) [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >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. John W. Vinson[MVP] Come for live chats every Tuesday and Thursday http://go.compuserve.com/msdevapps?loc=us&access=public >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 :-) No explicit limit....hard limits are on file size. I have a table with 148K records that pretty much flies.  SignatureKevin Hill President 3NF Consulting www.3nf-inc.com/NewsGroups.htm www.DallasDBAs.com/forum - new DB forum for Dallas/Ft. Worth area DBAs. > Does anyone know the max records Access can hold before it > brings a network to its knees? |
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