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system resources exceeded error
George_Hepworth hello, George.
Is this matter being looked into at MS to your knowledge?
First time user, and I don’t know the procedure.
This is an obvious problem but I don’t know if this forum is just a discussion that is trying to find work arounds rather than the supplier dealing with the problem.
If it is just a forum for solutions, do you know how one would tell MS about this?
My contacts with MS online chat and by phone have been to their staff who in essence told me they don’t know the answer as Access is a specialist product, and I have to pay MS a fee to have it investigated. Unsatisfactory.
Today, after splitting my archive table and successfully using the smaller table of more current data, today I turned to access the larger second table in a query, and it failed due to system resources exceeded. MS Access is not functional any longer. To anyone who reads this post, this is not a trivial complaint, but it goes to the core failure of MS to be able to handle data in its application that it has always been able to over the last 20 years.
Even though this a MS forum, does any reader know of a similar application to Access that I can buy as Access is now not usable.
thanks
Neville
This is just a discussion forum where people try and help one another with their Access database related problems.
There are different variation of this issue and I know MS is working on it, but no clue as to how long it will take it if they will fix this specific version of the issue.
With every new version of Access, this problem has been getting worse and worse. This is why sticking with an older version is actually beneficial as you are less likely to see this issue.
Use access.uservoice.com and the feedback command within Access itself to express yourself to Microsoft. Everyone needs to do so if ever things are going to change.
As for alternatives there are tons such as Alpha 5, FileMaker, Zoho, PowerApps, ... But truthfully I would not invest in another proprietary application and would instead turn to PHP/MySQL as it opens so many more doors and there is tons of information, forums, easy to find developers, ...