Re: Any way to prevent Access from ballooning?

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From: Stephane Baillargeon
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 20:11

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I don't know of any way of doing this but I can suggest an alternative. You
can use SQL Server from MS that can control database file growth.

"Mike Ruskai" <spamten.knilhtrae@begonedynnaht.net> wrote in message
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> If I insert somewhere around 100,000 records into a 100MB Access database
> with about 320,000 records, the database balloons to over 500MB.
>
> After compacting, it's back down to around 130MB.
>
> Is there anything one can do to prevent the file from growing so much?
>
>
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>  - Mike
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