Memory Hogging by SQL-Access Database

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  • Max Powers

    #1

    Memory Hogging by SQL-Access Database

    Hello all, we finally upgraded our system so now our data is on a SQL
    2000 database and our front end is on an Access 2000 database.
    Everything's looking good so far, but there's this little issue that's
    been bugging us ever since we upgraded.

    Whenever anybody in our network opens the Access system and moves from
    one form to another, the memory usage in their computer starts to climb
    up. (Windows Task Manager > Processes tab). This keeps on going up
    until we either close down the database OR (and here comes the weird
    part) when we minimize Access. This has caused some other programs to
    slow way down and affect the users' daily productivity. Sometimes the
    memory used goes up to +68 KB and when we minimize Access, it goes back
    to like 1.29 KB.

    We're using unbound forms, we use store procedures and pass through
    queries to access and edit our data. We have a User DSN Data Source
    installed in every computer pointed to our server that has the SQL
    Server 2000 database.

    Does anyone knows if this is a known MS Access bug or is it our code?
    Is there a way to replicate the way Windows XP acts when the MS Access
    screens gets minimized and frees up all that memory so we can use it in
    our code? We've tried a function to close all recordsets when exiting
    a form, but that did seem not help at all.

    Any help would be extremely appreciated.

    Thanks and have a great weekend.

    JR.

  • Lyle Fairfield

    #2
    Re: Memory Hogging by SQL-Access Database

    Max Powers wrote:[color=blue]
    > We're using unbound forms, we use store procedures and pass through
    > queries to access and edit our data. We have a User DSN Data Source
    > installed in every computer pointed to our server that has the SQL
    > Server 2000 database.[/color]

    In an ADP?

    This is a joke, right?

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    • Max Powers

      #3
      Re: Memory Hogging by SQL-Access Database

      Hello Lyle, thanks for replying.


      Absolutely NOT! This is not a joke and it is a serious problem. We do
      not have an ADP. We have an unbound MDB Access 2000 database with
      linked SQL server 2000 tables. Everytime we need to update or create
      new data we use store procedures or pass through queries and we do have
      the linked tables so some of our old queries can run.

      If anyone else have any clues on how to find a solution to this
      problem, I'd appreciate it.

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      • David W. Fenton

        #4
        Re: Memory Hogging by SQL-Access Database

        "Max Powers" <ILCSP@NETZERO. NET> wrote in
        news:1139610235 .800216.149190@ g14g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com:
        [color=blue]
        > Sometimes the
        > memory used goes up to +68 KB and when we minimize Access, it goes
        > back to like 1.29 KB.[/color]

        You surely must mean MBs instead of KB. Even that seems extremely
        low memory usage, unless you're trying to run on systems with less
        than 128MBs of installed RAM.

        I wouldn't run WinXP on less than 512MBs, myself.

        --
        David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
        usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/

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