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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com The information contained in this transmission is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain II-VI Proprietary and/or II-VI Business Sensitive material. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. You are notified that any review, retransmission, copying, disclosure, dissemination, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited.