ACC2: Microsoft Access Repair Utility Enhanced

• Microsoft Access version 2.0

SUMMARY

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

The Microsoft Access repair utility has been enhanced so that more databases can be repaired successfully. The enhancement enables the repair utility to traverse a table from beginning to end, and from end to beginning if needed, allowing the utility to recover data pages that could not be recovered before the enhancement. A data page can become damaged if the computer is turned off while a data pages contains changes that have not been saved.

MORE INFORMATION

This enhancement is included in the Microsoft Jet database engine version 2.5, which is available with the Microsoft Access version 2.0 Service Pack. For information about how to obtain the Service Pack, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q122927
   TITLE     : WX1124: Microsoft Access Version 2.0 Service Pack

REFERENCES

For more information about repairing databases, search for "repairing databases," and then "Repairing a Database" using the Microsoft Access Help menu.