Growing MS Access File Size problem

Question

I have a large MS Access application with a lot of computations in VBA code. When I run it it eventually crashes due to excessive file size. There are a lot of intermediat

Answer 1

If you do not want to switch to SQL Express or similar, you could dig the following ideas:

• Open another 'external' access database (mdb file) for all temporary tables, so you could put all temp data in the external file, throwing away the mdb file when you close your app. You will then manipulate in your code the 'currentDb' object and another database that you build at startup and connect to through jet, OLEDB or ODBC connection
• Separate your permanent tables from your code and, when needed, bring the data into your local client interface to build your temporary tables. This can be done for example by linking the external database to the local/client file using "DoCmd.transferDatabase acLink". This can also be done by connecting to the permanent data through OLEDB connection, opening the needed recordset(s) and saving them locally as XML files. There are many other solutions that can be implemented here.