[AccessD] First Encounter With a Memo Field

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Tue Aug 30 09:57:38 CDT 2011


You can query a memo field like any other field:

SELECT RecordID FROM tblSomeTable WHERE MemoField Like '*test*'

However, in Access, I do not believe you have the full text indexing
feature, that you have in SQL Server.  So big tables take a while to
search through, it is literally reading through every record to find the
match.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brad Marks
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 7:20 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] First Encounter With a Memo Field

In my work with Access so far, I have never had to deal with a Memo
field.

Recently a need has surfaced to work (in Access 2007) with an Outlook
Email field called "Contents" which is a Memo field.

I need to search through approximately 30,000 Emails for specific
strings in this Memo field.

>From my initial tests, it appears that the InStr Function does not work
with this Memo field.

Is there a way to find a specific string in a Memo field?

Thanks,
Brad

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