Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Tue May 16 10:12:22 CDT 2006
Thanks for the memory boost, Jim. I knew I had encountered it but couldn't remember the details. Charlotte -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 5:29 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] To re-link or not to re-link... Charlotte, A2 had "attachment fatigue". For no apparent reason, at some point, linked tables would simply stop working. A lot of developers got into the habit of re-linking at startup every time. I myself check one table in each BE and if it can't open the table, I force a re-link of all the tables associated with that BE. I prompt the user for the location of the BE to, so if it's been moved or it's un-available, they can correct it. Jim. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:40 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] To re-link or not to re-link... It seems to me there were some issues in the early versions if the linked database were not available (moved, renamed, network down) because the condition seemed to persist even when the linked file became available again, but I may be misremembering. In any case, that was overcome long ago and may have had more to do with the OS than with Access itself. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 9:09 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] To re-link or not to re-link... Hi Bobby We've never (since and including Access 2.0) seen any issues by _not_ relinking at every launch of the app. That's for JET tables. Neither have I seen such a need for SQL Server. It may be different for other (ODBC connected) engines though. Why not just disable the relinking and watch what happens? /gustav >>> bheid at appdevgrp.com 15-05-2006 17:33 >>> Hey, We have a system that was originally developed in Access 97. There were a number of tables that were linked to the FE. There were issues (not sure what they were as no one remembers and I did not write the original) with the system if the tables were not re-linked each time the system is loaded. Well, here we are today and the app has grown into Access XP. The system has grown and now has over 100 tables. As such, it takes about .6 seconds per table to re-link them all. Does anyone know what the issues may have been before and if they still exist in Access XP? Anyone have any pointers to further information? Thanks, Bobby -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com