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4 Tips to Keep your Access Database in Tip Top Shape

Here are four quick tips I use to keep my database file size down and my queries running quickly. These have been gleaned from various articles I've read over the last few years. You'll want to follow these in order to ensure each step benefits from the one before it. If you have any more, add them in the comments section.

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Trim all text fields in MS Access database

I recently had a need to trim fields in a table in one of the databases I use. Borrowing code from a newsgroup post, I was able to come up with VBA code to trim all the text fields in all the tables in a database (2003 MDB).

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Listing built-in Access database properties

In Checking Access properties using VBA, I posted code for Access that checks if a given database property exists. I also included code samples for adding and setting built-in properties.

But how do you check the built-in properties names to see what properties you can edit?

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Updated Access VBA code to delete empty records

I recently had to use the code I posted in Clean and Repair Your Access Database to delete blank records from a database. But it failed because one of the tables has spaces in the name. I didn't create the table, I swear!

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Import data to Access from Excel

Back in January, I promised to post a macro that imports data from Excel into Access programmatically.

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