Re: Can Access handle it?

From: Brendan Reynolds (brenreyn)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:41:03 -0000

The maximum size of a Jet (MDB) database is 2GB, so at 50 MB per month,
you'd exceed that in about 40 months. If 50 MB is the size of the text file,
that may translate to rather more than 50 MB of Jet data. Try compacting the
MDB, making a note of the size, then importing, then compacting, then
comparing the new size to the old size, to estimate how much the MDB will
grow with each import.

Unless this will be a short-term project with a small number of users, I
think you probably need to be looking at a heavy-duty database engine such
as SQL Server. (Not MSDE, which has the same 2GB limit as Jet). 

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"Zagor" <zagor@sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
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>
> Hi All,
> I have a question regarding the capabilities of Access and I would 
> appreciate any suggestion.
>
> This is the problem:
> I need to create a project which upload (monthly) a text file (with 
> delimiters and so on) to an Access database. The average file size is 50mb 
> ( almost 200.00 records) and each month a new one needs to be appended to 
> the exiting database. This means that at the end of the year  the database 
> will be roughly 600MB (2.400.000 records).
> Can Access handle it?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Frank
>
>