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CompactDatabase.mdb (advanced)

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Topic: CompactDatabase.mdb (advanced)

Posted By: Roger Carlson
Subject: CompactDatabase.mdb (advanced)
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2008 at 7:16am

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CompactDatabase.mdb

This sample illustrates how to compact the current database programmatically. It assumes that the tables reside locally. (To compact a Back-end database, see my sample "CompactBackEndDB.mdb".)

Overview:
1) Create a new, temporary database
2) Copy several pre-created forms, macros and modules to this temp database
3) Close database and launch temporary database with the /x switch which initiates the compact process.
4) After compacting is done, close temp database and relaunch main database

This can be used to safely duplicate the buggy "Compact on Close" feature of Access 2000, because it makes a back-up of the database before compacting it. If anything goes wrong, you can easily recover the uncompacted database.

Download
Access 97 (46 KB): http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/forum/uploads/5/CompactDatabase97.zip - CompactDatabase97.zip
Access 2000 DAO (105 KB): http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/forum/uploads/5/CompactDatabase2k.zip - CompactDatabase2k.zip

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