size of memo field

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Frank

We have a memo field for each record and what I would
like to know if there is a limit to the date we can enter
both for the individuel record and also the total
batabase. We have suddenly got an error on the database
and am wondering itf it is as a result on the memo data
we have on the system?
 
Memo field: 65,535 characters when entering data through the user interface,
1 gigabyte of character storage when entering data programmatically.
Database: 2 gigabytes assuming Access 2000 or later. See 'specifications' in
the help file for details. What error are you getting?

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G'Day Frank,

The limit for each Memo field is 65,536 characters.

You can store LONG formatted Text/Documents/
Spreadsheets/Images/databases etc etc in OLE
object fields.

You don't say what the error was.
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Frank said:
We have a memo field for each record and what I would
like to know if there is a limit to the date we can enter
both for the individuel record and also the total
batabase. We have suddenly got an error on the database
and am wondering itf it is as a result on the memo data
we have on the system?
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Access, at least the older versions can have problems with corrupted
memo fields. After getting several of them I removed all my memo fields.
Fixing them are really difficult since the error does not show on the record
with the problem.
 
Corrupted memo fields are a problem much older than
Access (you got the same kind of problem in an office
filing system, and at some time or other in every
database system ever written had similar problems).

However, there are no known specific problems with
Access if you have a current version back to A97 SR2.
 
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