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Adding multiple attachments from a folder
Rob Cooper recently made a post, Adding Attachments from a Folder, which shows how to add a single attachment file per row. But what if you wanted to add more than one file? One (highly contrived) scenario would be to add all of the files in a folder to one row, and do so recursively if requested, similar to Rob's example. What follows is some VBA code to do this, which borrows a bit from Rob's post and a bit from one of my earlier posts. However, I should point out this (again, highly contrived scenario) is meant only as an example and not something I would recommend doing, because if you are adding more than just a few files you can (ok, WILL) bloat your database very quickly, and in doing so can negatively impact performance and potentially hit the two gigabyte file size limit very quickly (see Access 2007 Specifications for details on database file size and object limitations). Read More...
Access 2007 Limits
This is a quick post to lay out the limits in Access 2007 and make a little clearer how the application works and how it scales. The first table below shows the limits of the database engine itself. Access Database Limits Access database (*.mdb or *.accdb) Read More...
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