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{SOLVED} Access: Application Limitations

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Where can I find out how many records you can have in Access?
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Hey root.
There doesn't seem to be a maximum limitation on the number of records - Dreamboat or Down will probably confirm or refute this.
I think it is entirely dependent on what your records consist of - hoew many fields and the size of those fields. I've seen people with records numbering in the millions.

This is from the table specs in the Access help files:

Table specifications

Attribute --> Maximum
Number of characters in a table name 64
Number of characters in a field name 64
Number of fields in a table 255
Number of open tables 1,024. The actual number may be less because of tables open internally by Microsoft Access.
Table size 1 gigabyte
Number of characters in a Text field 255
Number of characters in a Memo field 65,535 when entering data through the user interface;
1 gigabyte when entering data programmatically.
Size of an OLE Object field 1 gigabyte
Number of indexes in a table 32
Number of fields in an index 10
Number of characters in a validation message 255
Number of characters in a validation rule 2,048
Number of characters in a table or field description 255
Number of characters in a record (excluding Memo and OLE Object fields) 2,000
Number of characters in a field property setting 255

HTH
Gram
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Yep.

Access 97 max DB size is 1GB (so, as many records as this allows)
Access 2K and up is max DB size 2GB
Cheers Dreamer,
I forgot to mention that the specs I listed were from Access 97.

Gram
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