7 Fixes To Repair Corrupt Microsoft Access Database 2007/2010/2013/2016 File
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Is your access database file gets corrupted somehow? or are you looking for some solution to recover your lost access database data? Well if you are in search of this then this tutorial will surely going to help you a lot in this. So, let’s get started….!
MS Access database is a Microsoft’s proprietary Database Management System (DBMS). It’s a well efficient and very user friendly application. MS Access is a relational MS Jet Database Engine with development tools running at the back and easy to grasp user interface at the front.
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Ease of using this application software makes this DBMS a most accepted choice for many corporate. However, database file are often overwhelmed by corruption, which risks the extremely vital data present in the Access Database. At the end you need to look for some recovery solution to retrieve back your lost Access Database data.
Before approaching towards the fixes let’s have a look over the reasons that vulnerably makes the access database to get corrupt.
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Most Encountered Reasons Of Access Database Corruption
Well the Access Database corruption issues usually occur when binary file format of database encounters an error. In such case users may encounter several errors or difficulty while using the database. Jet Database Engine of Access database automatically fixes most of issues that encounters time to time while reading or writing data normally. Here are some main reasons that impart the corruption of the Access database:
Manual Fixes To Repair Corrupt Access Database And Recovering Data
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Frequent editing to data in the memo fields raises the chances of access database corruption. Usually the problem is with a VBA modules and don’t risk of your data to get lost. But it poses a risk of database design damage.
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Network service loss cause access to mark the database file as corrupted. Though user can repair the database but some still may get miss after the repairing process gets over.
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Well the chances are very less of this, but it cans happen sometime that improper shutdown of the system while some activity is being performed on the database. This leads to Access Database corruption issue.
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If the access database file gets virus infected, soon the infection will spread to the database and may it vulnerable too.
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Hardware failure issue like lost packets on network cards and bad sectors on hard drives causes severe database corruption.
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Improperly designed or installed 3rd party plug-in for Access can also sometime corrupt a database.
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Multiple users accessing the same database have different jet service packs and updates installed, minor difference in the MDB file format and file locking mechanism causes database corruption.
When corruption issue encounters in database, the very first thing we all think of is taking help of any expertise to get over this issue. However what we don’t realize is that sometimes, the corruption is minor enough to be handled by own. So here are some manual fixes to resolve this database corruption issue:
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Restoring the database from the backup file
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Deletion of the .ldb files which is created by Jet database engine at the time of new database creation.
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Use Jet Compact Utility which is specially designed to correct minor corruption in access database.
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Deleting all the complied VBA code from the database. This can be done by using the command line switch from Microsoft.C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MsAccess.exe /decompile C:\DatabasePath\FileName.mdb
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You need to make changes to the path shown above for MsAccess.exe if you have installed it somewhere else.
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Make of the access In-Built utility tool ‘Compact & Repair‘ feature:
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Here are the steps to fix Access Database corruption using this in built utility feature:
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Just Open the MS Access not the databse file and go to Database Tools -> Compact & Repair Database.
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Browse for the corrupted access database file and after selecting it tap to the ok option.
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Selected database file will be corrected on completion of the process.
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Import the corrupt database into new database file by using following steps:
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Open MS Access and create a new database file.
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Click on Access to Import Access database under the External Data tab.
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Hit the browse option to search for the corrupted database file and locate it while is to be imported.
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Select the location to store the data in the new database and click on OK option.
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Now select all database objects which you want to import and hit to the OK option.
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