Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Limitations of MS Access

REFERENCE: http://www.codeguru.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-235929.html
There is an article Microsoft Access 2000: Choosing between MSDE and Jet (http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/deployment/70/msdejet.asp) which lists all the limitations of Access database in the Word file (http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/deployment/70/Access2000MSDE.doc).
Here is extract:
"Appendix B: Access/Jet (.mdb) Specifications

File size (.mdb filetype) 2 GB
No. of objects in a database 32,768
Modules 1,000
Number of characters in an object name 64
Number of characters in a password 14
Number of characters in a user name or group name 20
Number of characters in a table name 64
Number of characters in a field name 64
Number of fields in a table 255
Number of open tables 2048.
Table size 1 gigabyte
Number of characters in a Text field 255
No. of characters in a Memo field (data entered via UI) 65,535
No.of char. in a Memo field (data entered programmatically) 1 gigabyte
Size of an OLE Object field 1 gigabyte
Number of indexes in a table 32
Number of fields in an index 10
Number of characters in a validation message 255
Number of characters in a validation rule 2,048
Number of characters in a table or field description 255
Number of characters in a record 2,000
Number of characters in a field property setting 255"

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