Microsoft® Office Access 2003 Step by Step

Keeping Your Application Healthy

In the day-to-day use of an Access database—adding and deleting records, modifying forms and reports, and so on—various problems can develop. This is especially true if the database is stored on a local area network and is accessed by multiple users. Access monitors the health of database files as you open and work with them. If it sees a problem developing, it attempts to fix it. If Access can’t fix a problem, it usually displays a message suggesting that you take some action. But Access doesn’t always spot problems before they affect the database, and sometimes database performance seems to slow down or become ...