Why and how to split an Access database

A large sized MDB file often creates multiple issues among the users of MDB file. Some of the problems that the users of MDB file need to face are:

• Sluggishness of Microsoft Access

• Freezing of the application when you are working on it

• Chance of MDB corruption gets increased

• MS Access gets crashed

These are some of the issues that the user needs to deal with if the MDB file is too large. Therefore, splitting the large database file will be the good option to prevent MDB corruption and data loss. If the MDB gets corrupt, you need to face severe data loss. Once the MDB file is damaged only a good quality Access database repair tool can help you to repair the corrupt file. However, if you split the large MDB file then there will be no need to repair the MDB database file.This article tells you how to split an Access database file and how to repair the damaged MDB file if it has already been damaged.

The MDB file is generally split into two files – one back end file, which stores data table and other front-end file, which contains objects, such as forms, reports, queries, and modules. Once the database is split, users will interact with a local copy of front-end object for accessing, modifying, or deleting data stored in the Tables linked with front-end objects. Let us execute the following steps to split a large file into two small files:

1.Start MS Access.
2.Select Tools > Database Utilities and then click the Database Splitter button.
3.The “Database Splitter” wizard appears. Now, follow the onscreen instructions to split the large MDB file into back end and front-end files.

With successful split, you have ensured that database will not be damaged. However, in case the MDB file gets damaged due to other reasons like power outage, abrupt system shut down, virus attack, human errors, etc. then you need to take help of Access database repair tool.
An Access database repair tool can be easily found over Internet. What all you need to do is download the free trial version of the tool, install the tool, execute the tool, and see if the tool is good enough for Access database repair. After using the free trial version, if you feel that the tool is worthy then purchase the tool and get all lost data back.

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