Access DB is growing fast

Have your users are added/deleted a lot of data? If you compress backend, is it returned to normal size?

I think you have many record too in your table.
What is the table that have sharp growth?
Can you mention how many tables do you have and its usage?

It's a DB with 38 tables. One of the tables has about 7.000.000 records (5 fields) but this one is not growing, is used only to read. There's also a table with transactions (add and edit) with about 220.000 records. Every year i do an archive.Something i can do a compact and repair DB and then the size is +/-0,5Gb. The problem is that the DB is rarely available, it runs 7 days on 7 and 24 hours on 24.
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since you have many record in your table and accesed in periodically.
big size is normal.
Why big size is matter for you?

Because if the size of the DB the 2GB exceeds, he's not usable.
 

"The problem is that the DB is rarely available, it runs 7 days on 7 and 24 hours on 24"

I cannot emphasize enough that ... you need to find a way to do a Compact & Repair (and backup) ...Daily!

mx

Hi DatabaseMX,

I can build a utility that on a certain time send a message to each user to logoff. If they don't logoff i can start a module "LOGOFFDB" with a timer of 10 minutes. If they don't logoff the module will automatically close all the users and do the compact and repair DB .

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In short, that is what I have ... Forced Shutdown ... that applies to approx 25 db's.

It's built around this free tool:

http://www.peterssoftware.com/fsd.htm

Many other cool things on Peter's site also.

The best preventative maintenance you can do on an Access db is C&R.

mx

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