John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri May 21 18:53:34 CDT 2004
You know, that's fascinating. I typically set the field size to 255 and forget it. The person can enter whatever length they need in Address1, Address2, last name, first name etc. Of course I use memo fields for the paragraph length tomes that are sometimes needed. I have never seen (to my knowledge) a failure to write the data. I think I will go off right now and test what error I see when I intentionally try and save a record with more than 2K record size. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jürgen Welz Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 2:02 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] On DB Bloat, Bad DB Design, and various "Unnecessary" size restrictions on fields ensure that a record can be saved. If you have more than 8 text fields at 255 characters per field, Access will refuse to save the record. Have you forgotten the the 2k character limit on record size in mdb files? Ciao Jürgen Welz Edmonton, Alberta jwelz at hotmail.com >From: DWUTKA at marlow.com > >Actually I think that talking about Access training/experience is a valid >topic. > >Recently, I have helped a friend with his Access 'homework' from his MIS >course. I worked cheap (for beer <grin>), but it just kills me what they >are having students do. The 'instructions' for the assignments has them >naming tables with spaces, setting unnecessary size limitations for text >fields, etc. Just plain ugly. In fact one instruction was so goofy, I >completely bypassed what they were trying to do, and wrote some VBA to have >the same result. > >It is just flat out amazing that the world moves as it does. <grin> > >Drew _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium includes powerful parental controls and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=htt p://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com