[AccessD] Access vs. Filemaker Comparison Reference?

Drew,

That can happen on an update as well.  The error is "Record too large".  Of
course there is a lot that goes into that.  Memo and OLE fields only take 14
bytes or 16 bytes in the fixed portion of the record (version dependent) for
a pointer to the chain, unless they are <30 bytes in size, then their stored
with the record.  There's also 1 byte overhead for each field and 7 bytes
for the record.

For A2000 and up (JET 4.0) the page size was increased to 4096 bytes, but
Unicode takes 2 bytes, so it's virtually the same.

  Not too often you run into it, but when you do, there is no getting around
it except to split the table.

Jim
(315) 699-3443
jimdettman at earthlink.net

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DWUTKA at marlow.com
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Hmmm, go figure.  Never ran into that problem before, but now that you
mention it, I do remember that limitation.

Drew

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jürgen Welz
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 11:49 AM
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Drew:

That's where the 2k/4k data pages and record locking by page/record come
from.  Try creating 9 text fields of 255 characters in a table record.
Access 97 will puke it out immediately.  I'm not certain how unicode
compression fits in with newer versions but I assume it is at the transfer,
not storage stage.

Of course we have memo fields...



Ciao
Jürgen Welz
Edmonton, Alberta
jwelz at hotmail.com





>From: DWUTKA at marlow.com
>
>VERY biased.  Where did they get the '2000 character limit per record'
>limitation?  I've never heard of that one!
>...
>...
>Drew
>

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