Limitations in MS Query?

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Jonas Lundqvist - 18 Dec 2005 13:57 GMT

I have a Word-document that collects data from a database through MS Query
and joing them to a letter.
This has been working very well until just recently. It seems that if a
field in the database contains a very long text MS Query is unable to handle
the data. In my example a field in the database containing 42219 characters
in 595 rows causes MS Query to crash.

Does anyone know the exact number of characters or rows that is the maximum
content in a field in MS Query?

I will need to redesign my database and it would be very helpful if I could
get the exact number instead of doing trial and error.

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 19 Dec 2005 21:18 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9uYXMgTHVuZHF2aXN0?=,

MS Query is actually "owned" by the Excel application. You might try asking
there. In a general sort of way, since Word 2000, Word itself should be able to
handle roughly 65'000 characters coming from a "memo" field via an ODBC driver
connection (which is what MS Query uses).

> I have a Word-document that collects data from a database through MS Query
> and joing them to a letter.
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Does anyone know the exact number of characters or rows that is the maximum
> content in a field in MS Query?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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