[AccessD] .NET

On behalf of William Hindman, who's posts don't seem to be getting through.

Donna

> > > Sent: 23 February 2003 00:42
> > > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com <mailto:accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> > > Subject: RE: [AccessD] .NET
> > >
> > >
> > > I think that it's time we created a .Net list. Clearly many of us are
> >
> > > interested, but it has little or nothing to do with Access, so let's
> >
> > > take these threads elsewhere, to spare the pure-Access folk. A.
...there is a problem with bloating in the XP storage format ...creating an
empty mdb and importing everything into it will get rid of the bloat ...MS
will get around to fixing this sooner or later :(
...in the meantime, since I do require mdes, I'm stuck with the XP format
...so far the bloating, now that I can fix it easily, isn't a major problem
...but if I didn't require mdes I'd be using the 2K format.
...there appears to be VERY little information available on the differences
other than some vague reference to the XP format having some features
applicable to future Access versions and supposedly more efficient storage
...considering the definite bloat problem, I have issues with the MS
definition of "efficient" :(

William Hindman

	----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Waters
<mailto:dwaters at usinternet.com> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
<mailto:accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003
9:54 AM Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access 2002 database format
	Charlotte - Here is something to be aware of.
	Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 810415
	Access 2002 Format Database Bloat Is Not Stopped by Compacting
	<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810415>
	The KB article describes a system table in XP that is not compacted when it
should be. Microsoft confirms that this is a problem and they recommend
developing using the 2000 format when you can.
	I was developing an ~ 15 Mb database in 2002 format, but it bloated to 3 -
4 times this size, and decompiling/compacting didn't shrink it. I moved all
the objects to a 2000 db file, and then was able to get it back down to the
normal size.
	Dan Waters
	-----Original Message-----
	From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
	Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:38 PM
	To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
	Subject: [AccessD] Access 2002 database format

	Does anyone know of reasons to chose the 2002 format over the default 2000
format, or vice versa, in AXP? I can't think of any reason except to be able
to create an mde, which we can't do with our app anyhow because of the
design changes it makes to itself at runtime.
	Charlotte Foust

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