Maximum number of records in Access 2003

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Glinty

Hi,
As a new user to access I am thinking of setting up a data base of my music.
The total number of tracks is in excess of 70,000. I have seen a simple
solution using excel which would be ok but I'm not sure if I can have 70,000
rows in one work sheet. A friend has suggested access which I am not
familiar with and don't know if this will allow 70,000 entries. Can anyone
please tell me what the maximum numbers are in both access and excel 2003.

Cheers
Glinty
 
The max size varies with the version of Access. I believe 2003 is two
Gig. Most databases with only 70,000 records would not be even close to the
limit.

In general Access can handle far more data than Excel.
 
Thanks Joseph, I've just found out the limit in Excel is about 65,000 so it
looks like I'm going to have to start learning about Access.
Cheers
Glinty
 
Thanks Joseph, I've just found out the limit in Excel is about 65,000 so it
looks like I'm going to have to start learning about Access.
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Sounds like a more appropriate tool in any case. However... be sure you're
aware that Access is *NOT* "Excel on steroids". Excel is a spreadsheet; Access
is a relational database. They use different logic and different techniques,
and what would be a very good design for a spreadsheet may be abysmally bad
for Access (and vice versa).

Check out the introductions at

Jeff Conrad's resources page:
http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie/resources.html

The Access Web resources page:
http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html

A free tutorial written by Crystal (MS Access MVP):
http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html

MVP Allen Browne's tutorials:
http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials

John W. Vinson [MVP]
 
Thanks John,
There's plenty to go at in that list. It's just as well that I've got plenty
of time on my hands at the moment.
Thanks again
Glinty
 
The limitation for Access is not the number of records, but the size of the
mdb file.

As noted, the max is 2 gb for an Access mdb. You can get around that, even,
by linking your Front End to tables in two or more BE files, each of which
can grow to the 2 gb limit.

As a point of comparison, I support an Access database in which one of the
primary tables currently holds over 1.3 million transaction records and
another table currently holds not quite a million records.

George
 
Correction: Latest stats on the two tables I mentioned in this mdb:
Record Counts Members
Mailed 1,230,391
Total 1,398,922
 
Very good advice from John, who has forgotten more than I ever knew
about Access. The learning curve is steep, but once you get going, you will
find it a great tool for the right jobs.
 
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