How to make Access use close to 100% CPU

[anoble1]

Hi,
Very odd question for you. What could you make in access to Make your CPU run at 100%?

I assume you could use a loop of some sort. But, would you have it create records and delete them?
Ideas?

[Rabbit]

Just make it generate random numbers in an infinite loop. But you should be aware that if you have a multicore CPU, the standard Windows Task Manager will never show a percentage more than 1/(# of cores) for Access because it is not a multithreaded application.

[anoble1]

Great idea. What a shame that it will only go on 1 core.

[zmbd]

and yet some installations of OFFICE2010 are supposed to take advantage of the multicore for several of not all of the applications. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363800,00.asp However, unlike Excel, Word, Powerpoint, I don't see Access specfically mentioned within the article.

[Rabbit]

Are you doing this as a stress test? And do you need to utilize every core?