Storing images in access DB

[Simon Gare]

Hi,
I need to store 4 small images in a DB. Tried several times but to no
avail, can anyone help?

Thanks in advance
Simon Gare

 

[Joseph Meehan]

Hi,
I need to store 4 small images in a DB. Tried several times but to no
avail, can anyone help?

Thanks in advance
Simon Gare

Usually it is best to store a link to the image rather than the image.
Access does not handle images very efficiently.

As I recall you may need to change the image to a bit mapped (BMP) file.

 

[Larry Linson]

I need to store 4 small images in a DB. Tried
several times but to no avail, can anyone help?

The sample imaging databases at http://accdevel.tripod.com illustrate three
approaches to handling images in Access, and the download includes an
article discussing considerations in choosing an approach. Two of the
approaches do not use OLE Objects and, thus, avoid the database bloat, and
some other problems, associated with images in OLE Objects.

If you are printing the images in reports, to avoid memory leakage, you
should also see MVP Stephen Lebans' http://www.lebans.com/printfailures.htm.
PrintFailure.zip is an Access97 MDB containing a report that fails during
the Access formatting process prior to being spooled to the Printer Driver.
This MDB also contains code showing how to convert the contents of the Image
control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps alleviate the "Out of
Memory" error that can popup when printing image intensive reports.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP