Hej!!
i noticed that MS Access Database size always become larger until i do compact and repair database! .. why its always doing like this.. whatever the reason i think its bad feature.. why MS Access not doing compact and repair automatically? .. is there a way for doing this automatically.. the problem that i'm using access database from delphi application.. how to do this automatically from external environment not from ms access .. !?
I'm using MS Access 2003
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Hello speedbit,
In VB, you'd use code like this to compact and repair an access database....
Public Sub CompactAccessDataBase(dbPa
Dim acc As Object
Set acc = CreateObject("Access.Appli
acc.CompactRepair dbPath, NewPath
Set acc = Nothing
End Sub
Sub test()
CompactAccessDataBase "C:\YourDatabase.mdb", "C:\YourDatabase_NEW.mdb"
End Sub
Regards,
Wayne
speedbit,
You can use that code I posted. By modifying it slightly, you can create a VB script file, and set it to run every so ofter via the Windows Task Scheduler.
Open Notepad, and paste in this code....
dim OldFile, NewFile, Acc,FSO, comp
OldFile = "C:\db1.mdb"
NewFile = "C:\db2.mdb"
Set acc = CreateObject("Access.Appli
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.Fi
comp = acc.CompactRepair(OldFile,
FSO.DeleteFile OldFile
FSO.MoveFile NewFile, OldFile
Set acc = Nothing
Set FSO = Nothing
Save the file as CompactDB.vbs, where ever you like.
Then add a new task to Scheduled Tasks, pointing it to the vbs file you created.
Wayne
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