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A few questions on MS Access databases –
Size: Are there limits to the size of an access database? The reason i ask is that we have an access database that has a few simple tables. The size of the db is about 1GB. When I do a query on it, i see it taking over 10 minutes to run.
With proper indexing, should MS Access be able to handle this or are there fundamental limitations to the technology.
This is MS Access XP.
Also, does MS Access support db transactions, commit and rollback?
You will get many varied answers here, but in MY OPINION access is just not there as a scalable solution. It doesn’t handle multi-user situations very well, as you start to approach 1Gb in size, stability starts to become a MAJOR concern, and in reality it just doesn’t have the performance.
In regards to transaction support, please see this Microsoft Article.
Also, here is a article that actually points out a good majority of limitations of access.