Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Are you experiencing errors because of damaged indexes in Access Database

Indexes, What makes easy to search out every records in a table. Index have a location of records for corresponding fields in table that you select to index. Once indexes are set then MS Access directly retrieves the data from the current location. Thus indexes are being considered the fastest element to find out the data than scanning the data of all the records. But sometimes indexes definitions may get corrupt. To get out of such situations, if you have backup, then it is quiet good. Else you need to opt a third party Access database repair tool which repairs the corrupt data comprehensively and restores it at user specified location.

Suppose, you have an access database file and you are trying to import data from one table of MS-Access database but you get unexpected error message saying that attempt remains unsuccessful. In addition to this an error message pops out.

“Operation failed - too many indexes - reduce the number and try again

Importing process halts after facing the above error message:

Cause:
This error occurs because of the following situations:

The data which you are trying to import relates to corrupted or damaged table of MS Access.
Index definitions of destination table's are damaged or destroyed.
For sake of information, In MS Access Index are imported after the table definition and data. If the indexes definitions gets corrupt then it is certain to get this error message mentioned above.

Resolution:
To work around the problem, a user has to follow some steps:

Create a copy of the destination table, be sure that copy of the table do not contain any data.
Delete all indexes.
Command an append query and transfer the data from a problematic table to a new table.
Make sure to recreate indexes without using copy and paste application
Once you are done with index recreation then transfer the table to a new file.

However, If these steps don't solve the problem and still facing the problem then instead of wasting the time, go by a third party access repair application which repairs corrupt access file in such manner that while using MS-Access database application, you face no hassles. These tools keeps do-it-yourself approach which makes it easy and safe to use.

Access Repair is a user-friendly and self- explanatory comprehensive application that is fully capable to repair Access and stores it in a user-specified location. It recovers queries, and modules forms, macros, tables, reports etc. The tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2000, XP, and 2003. Moreover free demo version of the software can be downloaded.

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