[AccessD] Really long memo fields

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Mon May 17 18:03:32 CDT 2010


My first question is do you really have a user TYPING in 65k+ of text
into one field?  Sheesh!

I do not believe there is anything special to add more than 65k to a
memo field.  I believe you can just open a recordset, and set a memo
field to whatever value you want, up to the size limit of the .mdb.  But
I have never looked into whether or not there is a limit to the size of
a textbox.

Here's a spec on the memo field:
http://www.mvps.org/access/general/gen0011.htm

Drew

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Debbie
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 4:32 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Really long memo fields

Well for the first time I have a user bumping against the 65K limit  
for memo fields entered from a text box. I thought unbinding would  
take care of the problem, but I seem to be jettisoning some of the  
memo anyhow on update. I am putting it back in using appendchunk  
because these users write novels worth of notes.

Is the appendchunk my mistake?  Is the text box itself what is  
constrained?  Do I need something much more complicated to add new  
notes, keep the old ones and allow access to old notes over 65K?   
Better yet does anyone have an example?

Debbie

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