Fixing Database Corruption using Compact and Repair

MS Access databases are solely designed to allow database to increase in size consistently, unless user compact them. When user remove any record from the MS Access database, the space allocated to the removed record continues to be held in reserve by database and it isn't released for further use.

In these situations, your database keep increasing in size, and may become as big in size as you can't manage it and properly access it and it may get corrupted. In these situations, you need to use "Compact and Repair" tool of your Microsoft Access Database.

To avoid causing excess amount of wasted disk space and damaging your database, you must use compact and repair tool regularly. Compact and repair performs two different functions. First one, it compacts the Access database to remove wasted space; second, it attempts to repair the corrupted or damaged Access database.

Compact and repair tool also updates the statistics of database table in order to reflect the characteristics of restructured data. The more deletions, modifications and additions performed on the database, the more frequently you should compact them.

It might possible that you may fail to compact your Access database and it may result in the database corruption. In this case, the repair tool attempts to Defragment and perform access repair.

Though, compact and repair is the preinstalled and useful database utility, but it has several limitations and may not completely recover your Access database. The repair utility can restore only the corrupted database tables, in case of other database objects like forms, modules, macros and reports, it doesn't work. In these situations, you need for third party Access data recovery software to repair and restore the corrupted or damaged Access database.

Access data recovery are specially designed data recovery software to repair and restore the corrupted or damaged Access database no matter what is the reason of database corruption. These software are able to recover all the database objects including forms, modules, macros and reports in all possible cases of Access database corruption. These software are most popular and easiest way of database recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Access Recovery is the most powerful and easy user interface provider data recover software that is helpful in repairing and restoring the corrupted or damaged Access database. This software helps you in getting back your precious data that is inaccessible due to database corruption, table corruption, form corruption and queries corruption. This software works with all file versions of Microsoft Access including Access 97 / 2000 / 2002 / XP/ 2003 / 2007.

Article By Mark Robin

Keywords: access repair, access recovery

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