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Old May 26th, 2004, 08:29 PM
susanc
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I am using Access 2002 SP3 and I have a large table with
2.6 million records and some other tables totaling approx
125,000 records. On the large table, it was imported as a
text file and now if I try to change the length of a text
field or an index it will not perform the change and gives
error 'Invalid argument'. I installed SP3 according to a
KB article but still getting same problem. Anyone else
encounter this and get around it? I already compacted and
repaired which didn't help. Any ideas ?
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Old May 26th, 2004, 08:41 PM
Lynn Trapp
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The only thing I've ever seen about that suggests that it may be related to
the size of your file. You can read something on it he

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;835416

What is the size of your .mdb file? You may need to split the database to
see if that helps.

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Lynn Trapp
MS Access MVP
www.ltcomputerdesigns.com
Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm


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I am using Access 2002 SP3 and I have a large table with
2.6 million records and some other tables totaling approx
125,000 records. On the large table, it was imported as a
text file and now if I try to change the length of a text
field or an index it will not perform the change and gives
error 'Invalid argument'. I installed SP3 according to a
KB article but still getting same problem. Anyone else
encounter this and get around it? I already compacted and
repaired which didn't help. Any ideas ?



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Old May 26th, 2004, 10:31 PM
Susanc
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Thanks Lynn, I'll look at that one and see if it helps.
However, I suspect you are correct in that the db is just
too big. Thanks again!


-----Original Message-----
The only thing I've ever seen about that suggests that it

may be related to
the size of your file. You can read something on it he

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-

us;835416

What is the size of your .mdb file? You may need to split

the database to
see if that helps.

--
Lynn Trapp
MS Access MVP
www.ltcomputerdesigns.com
Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm


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I am using Access 2002 SP3 and I have a large table with
2.6 million records and some other tables totaling

approx
125,000 records. On the large table, it was imported

as a
text file and now if I try to change the length of a

text
field or an index it will not perform the change and

gives
error 'Invalid argument'. I installed SP3 according to

a
KB article but still getting same problem. Anyone else
encounter this and get around it? I already compacted

and
repaired which didn't help. Any ideas ?



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