I have a MS Access 2010 DB with bunch of forms,queries ,macros, Reports etc
The data for my report comes from ODBC links to SQL Server 2000 Tables via linked table property.
Now, whenever i goto design mode of a report,Everything moves painfully slow (I have to wait atleast half a minute for every mouse click,or to select a text box , or any operation performed on the report)
The report itself takes about a minute to run.Which i dont mind.
All I am looking for, is a quicker way to make changes to the design of reports.
This is an old question, but I had a similar issue with form design running extremely slowly recently. For me, only one form seemed to be affected (all others ran fine in design mode). The record source for the form was a complex query built on a hierarchy of subqueries. I dumped the query results into a table and used the table as the record source for the form instead of the query. This appears to have resolved the issue. Hope this helps someone else.
I found the main cause to be the Access conversion program that converted 2003 format to 2010. If you create a new .accdb and then import all of your object, it should work OK. I definitely fixed my issues
What worked for me is based on the answer provided by Albert Kallal at http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t1959800.html.
For me, in my split database, if I open any table that is linked to the backend then opening any frontend form or subform was very quick. If I do not have open and keep open a linked table, then it takes about 20 seconds to switch from Form View to Design View and another 20 seconds to open a subform, etc. When I have a linked table open (it does not matter which table, just any table linked to the backend), then it takes about 1 second to do any of those functions. Huge difference!
That is not normal. Something is wrong. Could be your Office/Access installation, your OS installation, something taking up too much of the system CPU, or your system just not having resources, like memory, to properly run Access. Or that your DB is corrupted and/or bloated.
Two tests you can try.
First, do a compact/repair on the DB and see if that fixes it.
Second, is to start your computer in Safe Mode and see if Access still runs slow. This will test for much of the above issues.
What worked for me was to change the subdatasheet name from 'auto' to 'none' on all local tables. Do this in the property sheet in table design mode. There are routines posted elsewhere that will find all your local tables and change this value.
A table was linked to an Excel file. I found that when the Excel file was open, it took forever to change to design view on ANY form. Closing the Excel file eliminated my problem!
My case is access work fine in every function except opening or designing report. But access can work fine when network disconnect. I found it's cause by printer share by other computer and the computer which was removed. I remove the printer from control panel and access can work smoothly.
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I have several clients that I make databases for, all are pretty similar... They all have a screen with current data displayed. This screen/pc combo also sends some emails, uploads data, etc... usually without problems... however, one client keeps getting an 2004 (Not enough memory) and 3035 (system resources exceeded). I have tracked the memory usage on the device and it hasn't gone about 50%. I ran a memory test and no errors were found.
Today, I notice the error and was able to try a few things. With Access open, I could not open or design view any forms. Some queries I could get to open to SQL, but not design view. Crosstab queries would not open in design or SQL. Neither would open and show any data.
These errors are usually logged, and I will get several 2004s in a row, then it will switch to several 3035s, then eventually it will just quit altogether. Closing Access and reopening will always fix it (for a while).
I have decompiled and recompiled. I have tried accdb and accde versions. This is Access 2007. What should I try next?
Can't add as comment, but one thing to try would be to check the service pack level for Access, the latest for Office 2007 is SP3.
Also, if the issue is with multiple forms, then it could indicate database corruption rather than issues with individual forms. Have you tried to import all objects into a brand new container and run it from that?
I hardly dare bring up this topic because what is happening is so extremely strange - but I'll try anyway.
I have a large Access DB for a customer. One of the forms in the front end has a series of subforms. Until recently, everything was working well.
Now, when a new version of the front end is sent to the customer (I tried Team Drive as well as WeTranser) this results in one of the subforms being changed to a different form. This form is also in the database but is by no means linked to the main form in question.
I have tested this several times: The version on my PC is still working perfectly. The version that the customer sent back to me according to my request has the wrong subform in it.
We are all working on Access 2010 with an Access 2000 format MDB. The reason for this is that the Backend needs replication.
Does anybody have a clue on how or why this could be happening? Thanks in advance.
Found a solution myself after testing together with the customer.
Copied the file via USB stick this time. The copied file was OK on the destination system. Opened file pressing shift button so no programs would run. Everything was still OK. Then opened the file in the usual way. The start form realized that the paths had changed and relinked all the tables. Except for the start form, no other forms are involved in this operation. After that, the subform had changed to a different form.
Solution (rather: Workaround): Changed the name of the subform that replaced the correct subform. After that, everything went well.
The change of the subform only occurred during the relink routine. If the subform was changed to the correct one manually after relinking, it remained correct.
Reasons? Has Microsoft released updates to MS Access recently? We'll probably never know.
I have an Access Database. When I try to open a report, either in Design view or Regular view, it takes nearly 2 minutes to open. This is a new behavior (everything was fine last week but after leaving my computer, and the DB, on over the weekend, this started) and even occurs when opening a report that has no data bound to it. Not sure if this matters, but the DB is split. This even happens with I try to programmatically open a report, using DoCMD. I've tried to compact and repair both sides, but this does not seem to help. Any ideas?
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jason
Try to change the default printer of Windows.
Access reads the information from this when launching a report.
I have an application that creates an Jet database at run-time, and imports ~100k records so that I can make use of the indexing for performance reasons (1 minute versus nearly 10 when not using a Jet database).
The database is created using ADO Extensibility in Excel, and everything works just fine. However, my issue comes whenever I then open the MDB file in Access front-end, it automatically starts to "repair" the database.
The data is still fine after the "repair", however my main output query can not then be viewed in Access as it tells me it cannot represent the joins, and if I then view it in SQL the required joins are not there, and the query can no longer run. This still happens if I let it get "repaired" but do not open that query, i.e. it is the "repair" that breaks the query, not the act of trying to view it in Access. The funny thing about this is that I used the Access GUI query designer to construct the SQL as my life is too short to worry about it's crazy bracketing style, but it then later decides that it's too complex for itself??
Also, nothing else appears to be affected so I can only assume it's this one query it doesn't like.
This isn't a deal-breaker for me as my fix is to make the MDB hidden and advise users who can see it not to open it.
However, I would really like it if the database could be opened and I didn't have to hide it away like that. Therefore, my question is whether there is any way to prevent the MDB being "repaired" automatically?
Thanks!
Microsoft Access is "repairing" the file when opened because it is missing some tables that are specific to the Microsoft Access user interface. Since you created the MDB file directly using OLEDB with Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0, these tables are not present, and must be created when Access opens the MDB the first time. There are several ways you can circumvent this:
1) Name the MDB something other than .mdb - e.g.: MyAccessDatabase.mad - this will prevent Windows from using Microsoft Access to open the file.
2) Use COM+ to open an instance of Microsoft Access, and have it create the .MDB file. This .MDB file will then have all the necessary tables present and will not need to repair the file.
FYI, whenever Microsoft Access opens an MDB that needs repairing in this fashion, it will inspect all the QueryDef objects for invalid SQL and correct them as necessary. This is why your "complex" query is breaking.
Has anyone else come across a situation where the contents (SQL statement) of an Access 2003 or 2007 was completely wiped (the Query object still exists, the inner SQL does not)?
Does anyone know what causes this?
I've just had this happen to me again. 2 queries run from a Macro's OutputTo actions to generate 2 Excel files. I ran the Macro a few times then suddenly no more SQL statement in both Queries.
No, I've never seen this happen. And I've read pretty much all the postings in the Usenet and Microsoft newsgroups mentioning corruption for the last ten years or more.
But I'm wondering. Do multiple users share this MDB? We've had a few bizarre postings with respect to Access 2007 losing VBA code.
I have accidently done this in VBA code in MS Access by creating QueryDef object whose name that matched an existing query.
Yup I've had this happen in a 2003 database - I thought perhaps the database had been corrupted so I rebuilt it from scratch this time using Access 2010, but it has just happened to me again. Macro / button has been working as expected for months, but after I changed 1 line of VBA code in a completely unrelated part of the application (setting a field to null instead of ""), this query wiping has started again.
I run a macro triggered from a button which outputs the results of a SELECT to a file. I've worked out the specific steps I can take to trigger the Query being wiped out, however if I check the query still exists in between each step then the query doesn't get wiped! Obviously this is not a solution for the application users.
I have found in another stackoverflow question Weird Bug: "DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputQuery" is deleting the query a work around I am going to try - change the built-in macro ExportWithFormatting to run code instead and restate the SQL before running the output command.