“Invalid Argument” error in MS Access

When you try to run a query for fetching all the records of a table, which is a MS Access database component, you get an error. Let’s say its Employee named table and you come across the following error message,

“Invalid Argument” of Employee table, you will be getting invalid argument error again and again.

Cause of the Error

Possible reasons for the occurrence of the above error message are:
Employee table has some sort of corruption.
2GB file size limitation of the database has been exceeded.
MDB file in which you created the Employee table is damaged.

Resolution

To get rid of this error and to resolve the same for accessing the data saved in the Employee table, follow the given below steps:
Split the Employee table into multiple tables.

If corruption is the culprit, you need to use an inbuilt repair utility “Compact and Repair”.

Compact and Repair utility doesn’t guarantee you sure success recovery. In last, you are forced to take help of professional Access Repair software. Kernel for Access recovery software one is able to repair and recover all the lost, corrupt Access database components from inaccessible Access database.

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