FILE: Microsoft Access 2.0 Specs and Limitations for VB 3.0

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• Purchase the Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit (ADT) version 2.0 available through resellers or direct from Microsoft.
• Purchase the Microsoft Office Developer's Kit (ODK). The ODK will be available as a standard component in all new packages of Visual Basic version 3.0 Professional Edition. The ODK comes on CD-ROM only.

Microsoft Access 2.0 Databases

   Attribute                                                Maximum
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   .MDB file size                                           1 gigabyte
   Number of objects in a database                          32,768
   Number of characters in object names                     64
   Number of characters in a password                       14
   Number of characters in a user name or group name        20
   Number of concurrent users                               255
				

Microsoft Access 2.0 Tables

   Attribute                                                Maximum
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   Number of characters in a table name                     64
   Number of characters in a field name                     64
   Number of fields in a record or table                    255
   Table size                                               1 gigabyte
   Number of characters in a Text field                     255
   Number of characters in a Memo field                     64,000
   Size of OLE Object field                                 1 gigabyte
   Number of indexes in a record or table                   32
   Number of fields in an index                             10
   Number of characters in a validation message             255
   Number of characters in a validation rule                2048
   Number of characters in a table or field description     255
   Number of characters in a record                         2000
     (Excluding Memo and OLE Object fields)
   Number of characters in a field property                 255
				

Microsoft Access 2.0 Queries

   Attribute                                                Maximum
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   Number of tables in a query                              32
   Number of fields in a dynaset                            255
   Dynaset size                                             1 gigabyte
   Number of sorted fields in a query                       10
   Number of levels of nested queries                       50
   Number of characters in a cell in the QBE grid           255
   Number of ANDs in a WHERE or HAVING clause               40
   Number of characters in an SQL statement                 64,000