[AccessD] Access 2007 - compacted

jack drawbridge jackandpat.d at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 08:42:12 CST 2013


When was the last C&R done? Could just be garbage collection if it's been a
long time and there's been a lot of "development"  and/or temporary tables
etc.
Just a quick thought until others respond....

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Jim Hewson <jm.hwsn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had something happen that I can't explain. I hope someone on this list
> could shed some light on it.
>
> I have a complex database, 77 tables (2 linked, 2 user system), 518
> queries, 161 forms, 146 reports, 29 modules and 2 classes and approximatel
> 42,000 lines of code.
>
> While I was creating this database the size increased.  The latest was over
> 92 MB.
> I was doing some trouble shooting because one query wasn't working
> correctly with one of the linked tables.
> I got an error message... stating it couldn't find a field in the query and
> then it shut down.
> I reopened the database did the usual - compile, saved, etc. I fixed the
> error and then the issue went away.
> Then I did a compact and repair.
> Everything is working, all the code is there, it's as if nothing happened.
> Great! I'm back in business.
>
> I checked the size of the it's down to 22.3 MB! How can that happen? - goes
> from over 92 MB to 22.3 MB.
> I'm happy the file size is down and everything works! It also seems to work
> faster.
> I'm confused.
>
> Can that be explained?
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