2007 MicrosoftВ® Office System Inside Out (Bpg-Inside Out)

As you design your database, you should keep in mind the following limitations:

• A table can have up to 255 fields.

• A table can have up to 32 indexes.

  Note

  Keep in mind that defining relationships with Referential Integrity turned on creates one additional index in each participating table that counts toward the 32-index limit per table.

• A multiple-field index can have up to 10 fields. The sum of the lengths of the fields cannot exceed 255 bytes.

• A row in a table, excluding memo fields and ActiveX objects, can be no longer than approximately 4 kilobytes.

• A memo field can store up to 1 gigabyte of characters, but you can’t display a memo larger than 64 kilobytes in a form or a datasheet.

  Note

  Clearly, if you try to store a 1-gigabyte memo (which requires 2 gigabytes of storage because of double-byte character set support) or a 2-gigabyte ActiveX object in your database file, your file will be full with the data from one record.

• An ActiveX object can be up to 2 gigabytes in size.

• There is no limit on the number of records in a table, but an Access 2007 database cannot be larger than 2 gigabytes. If you have several large tables, you might need to define each one in a separate Access database and then attach them to the database that contains the forms, reports, macros, and modules for your applications.