Friday, October 30, 2009

Resolving errors post Microsoft Access Jet database Engine corruption

The underlying database engine for Microsoft Access database is Microsoft JET Database Engine. The database engine manipulates your MS Access database by using three different modules. The JET (Joint Engine Technology) add various functionalities to MS Access, such as, enforcing referential and entity integrity, transaction processing, simultaneous multiple-database users access, and more. While the Microsoft JET Database Engine provides incomparable benefits, a small corruption in the database engine can result in serious damage of Access database files. In such situations, the ideal way is to restore the Access database files from an updated backup. However, if no backup is available or backup itself is corrupted, then you will need to use advanced repair access file tool to repair the database files.

Below are the error message that you might encounter after your Access database gets corrupted due to Microsoft JET Database Engine damage:

“The Microsoft Jet database engine could not find the object 'filename'. Make sure the object exists and that you spell its name and the path name correctly”
Or
“Microsoft Jet Engine can't open the file”
Or
“Microsoft jet database engine could not find object MSysDB. Make sure the object exists and that you spell its name correctly and the path name correctly”
Or
"The Microsoft Jet database engine could not find the object 'databases'. Make sure the object exists and that you spell its name and path name correctly"

These error message do not allow you to access the database records an appear when you attempt to mount your database.

Cause:

Microsoft JET Database Engine damage due to improper system shutdown, application malfunction, human errors, and virus attacks.

Resolution:

To resolve all the above error message and access the records stored in your Access database files, you will need to opt for advanced access file repair tool. These Access Repair tool are developed by highly talented database recovery experts and use powerful scanning methods to repair Access database files (accdb and mdb) after damage of Microsoft JET Database Engine. With easy-to-understand graphical user-interface, these can be used by both home users and technical users. Such repair tools ensure safe repair of database without modifying the original content of the database.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Ideal way to repair corrupted MS Access database

Any user using MS Access is likely to have had issues due to corruption or damage in database. While the percentage of Access database corruption varies under different scenarios, the result in most of the cases remains the same – inaccessibility of records saved in MS Access database components, like tables, forms, reports, etc. In such situations, the best way is to restore the required data from an updated database backup. But, in case of backup unavailability or backup falling short of restoring the required information, you will need to use advanced access recovery tool to repair the corrupt database and access your records.

Consider a practical scenario, where your Access database gets corrupted and you are no more able to access its records. The corruption can be identified with the below error message that appears every time when you attempt to access your database:

“Unrecognized format”

Cause:

Few main causes for Access database corruption are improper system shutdown, application malfunction, and virus attacks.

Resolution:

To repair the database and access the records, in case the “Compact and Repair” utility fails to perform complete repair, you will need to create new database and one-by-one import all the objects. To do so, you will need to follow the below steps:

1.Start MS Access and create a new database.
1.Select Get External Data under the File menu options, and then click Import.
2.Next, click on Microsoft Office Access (*.mdb;*.adp;*.mda;*.mde;*.ade) in the “Files of type” list.
3.Choose your desired drive and folder (which stores the old database) in the “Look in” box.
4.Choose the required file and click on Import.
5.Select all the required MS Access components you want to import.
6.Click OK after selecting the components.
7.Compile the imported modules in the new MS Access database.
8.Exit Microsoft Access.

The above steps enable you to overcome all kinds of database corruption scenarios. However, if the above steps fail to resolve, then you will need to opt for advanced Access Database Repair application. These repair access tool are self-explicable and do not require any prior technical knowledge to perform database repair.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Repairing Damaged Macro in Access database

Macros in MS Access are primarily used to automate tasks and add functionality to your reports, controls, and forms. These Access components save your time by automating a list of actions that you perform often. You can run Macros directly, or using another Macro, or from a VBA (Visual Basic Application) procedure. While running Macros is easy, the task gets halted when a Macros get corrupted or damaged. In such situations, the Macros become inaccessible. For complete accessibility of Macros, an ideal way is to restore the data from an updated backup. However, if you have not maintained any backup or backup falls short to recover the required Macros, then you will need to use an advance access database repair tool to recover your desired Macros.

As a practical scenario, you have created a macro that allows you start a financial report directly from one of your data entry forms. However, when you click on the data entry form, the Macro does not execute – leaving you in absence of financial report. In such situations, you receive an error message stating you the cause of the error.

Cause:

The main reason behind the occurrence of the above error message is corruption of Macros. Few ways that can result in corruption of Macros are improper system shutdown (while Macro is fetching records), operating system corruption, virus attack, and human errors.

Resolution:

To repair the corrupted Macros, you will need to follow any of the below steps:

Create a new Macro and copy the contents to new macro.
Create a new Macro and re-create all the contents of original Macro.
Reload the file after removing all bad and strange data.

However, if the above above resolutions fail to perform, then your Macros are corrupted beyond any repair. In such situations, only a powerful Access Database Repair software can enable you to recover your Macros. These repair access applications are developed by highly talented data recovery experts and use effective scanning algorithms to recover your Macros. With highly interactive user-interface, to-the-point documentation, and non-destructive nature, these tools provide safe and quick recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Access Recovery is a powerful Access Repair software that recovers Macros and repairs databases created in Microsoft Access 2007, 2003, XP (2002), and 2000. The non-destructive software provides risk-free repair of databases by storing the repaired database on default or new user-specified location, leaving the original database unmodified.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Causes and Resolutions for Access 2007 database corruption

MS Access 2007, a significant release by Microsoft, allows you to create and maintain databases with more ease in comparison to its older versions. While the later version is built with powerful features like rich text, split forms, image control, etc., the security features lack to save your database files from being corrupted or damaged. Two major hazards that you encounter after Access database corruption are unmountability of database and inaccessibility of records saved in it. These hazards fail to affect you if you have maintained a valid and complete backup of your database. However, the hazards may be a cause of worry in case your backup has been corrupted or you have not maintained any database backup. In such situations, if you need to access the records saved in your Access 2007 database file (.accdb), then you will need to opt for advanced access database repair application.

Few most common scenarios under which your .accdb file can get corrupted or damaged are discussed below:

Improper System shutdown
Operating System corruption
Application Malfunction
Virus Attack
Simultaneous modifications in Access database components
Human errors

While the percentage of corruption may differ in the above scenarios, the outcome for all of them remains the same – inaccessibility of Access database records. In most cases, you encounter an error message stating the cause of the corruption.

To comprehensively resolve Access database corruption and access database records, the inbuilt repair utility “Compact and Repair” comes to rescue. To use the repair utility, you will need to follow the below steps:
1.Choose “Database Utilities” under “Tools” drop down list. Next, click “Compact and Repair Database.”
2.Click Compact after locating the database in the ‘Database to Compact From’ dialog box.
3.Select a new folder destination for the repaired file in the ‘Compact Database Into’ dialog box. Give a unique name to the file.
4.Click on Save.

While the above utility repairs corrupt Access database in most cases, the failure of it results in usage of third party Access Database Repair applications. Such repair access tools use high end scanning methods to repair the corrupted Access databases.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Error message while running an Append query

Append query in Microsoft Access database is primarily used to add records from one or more tables to another database table. Few benefits of using an append query are appending multiple records in one pass, review your selection criteria, and appending records when fields in the destination table do not exist. While appending the records using Append query is quite an easy task, the task may get halted due to corruption in database or when a table consists of Memo or self-join fields. In such situations, if you want to append the records, you will need to repair the database using an advanced repair access application.

For example, when you attempt to execute an append query to add some records in Employee table, you encounter the below error message:

“Microsoft Access can't append all the records in the append query.
Microsoft Access set 0 field(s) to Null due to a type conversion failure, and it didn't add record(s) to the table due to key violations, 0 record(s) due to lock violations, and 0 record(s) due to validation rule violations.
Do you want to run the action query anyway?
To ignore the error(s) and run the query, click Yes.
For an explanation of the causes of the violations, click Help.”

Cause:

Two major reasons responsible for the occurrence of the error message are:

1.Employee table contains self-join and Memo fields, and has referential integrity enforced.
2.Access database corruption.

Resolution:

To resolve the above error message, you will need to follow the below steps:

Modify the Memo fields to Text fields, and then use a 1:1 relationship
Move the Memo fields to a different table, and then use a 1:1 relationship.
Use Compact and Repair utility to repair your database.

However, there is a possibility that after using the “Compact and Repair” utility, you might encounter below error message:

"Could not find field "Description"

To repair your database after the above error message appears, you will need to use powerful Access Database Repair utilities. With to-the-point documentation, highly graphical user-interface, and non-destructive nature, these access repair tools provide safe, comprehensive, and fast database repair.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Lost Images in MS Access database

Microsoft Access database allows you to save different types of images (scanned art, computer graphics, and digital pictures) on its various components like tables, forms, reports, and more. These images can either be embedded as the internal part of database file or can be linked to a network or hard drive. Inaccessibility of these images primarily occurs due to Access database corruption, network damage, and similar reasons. To overcome such situations, you can restore all the images from an updated backup. But if no backup is available or backup falls short to restore the required images, then you will need to opt for repair access software that can repair your database and recover all the images.

Consider a practical scenario, where you have embedded some static pictures (company logo and background images) in your financial report to make it more descriptive. However, when you open your financial report, the static pictures do not appear. Few most common reasons for disappearing of images are discussed below:

Access database corruption
VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) corruption

To access all your inaccessible images, you will need to take below actions:

Analyze VBA code used for displaying the static images.
If the VBA code is correct, then repair your database using “Compact and Repair” utility. To use the repair utility, follow the below steps:

1.Select Database Utilities under Tools drop down list. Click “Compact and Repair Database.”
2.Click Compact after searching and selecting the database in the ‘Database to Compact From’ dialog box.
3.Select a new folder location for the file in the ‘Compact Database Into’ dialog box. Provide a unique name to the file.
4.Click on Save.

The repair utility makes the images accessible in most cases. But if in case, both the resolutions fail to resolve your issue and your images still remain inaccessible, then you will need to use an advanced Access Repair tool that can recover all your lost images. Such access database repair tools use high end scanning methods to recover all your lost images. These recovery utilities are built with highly graphical user-interface that makes them easily understandable without any prior technical skills.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Autoincrement Id Shows Lesser Access Table Records

An access database might get corrupt due to power interruption while the database is open or for several other reasons. You can deduce this by errors it prompts, abrupt behavior, and issues while updating the database. Regardless of the cause, a corrupted database can be easily salvaged using commercial access database repair applications, in case no valid backup is available. However, there are methods too.

To illustrate, consider you use an Access Database with a table containing 'x' number of records. When you view the Autoincrement Id for a new record, it shows the table with lesser records and a difference of 'y' records than the original. Trying to update the table gives an error message, as below:

“Primary index is not unique”

You use DbEngine.CompactDatabase code to try compacting the database, but it deletes the last 'y' records without displaying any error message.

Cause

Access database is corrupt. Using DbEngine.CompactDatabase for a corrupted database might cause data loss.

Solution

It is suggested to backup the database before applying any repair solution. To repair the corrupted Access database, you should use 'Compact and Repair' utility as follows:

Access 2007:

Close the database
Start Microsoft Access and click 'Microsoft Office Button'
Point to 'Manage' and click 'Compact and Repair Database' under 'Manage this database' section
Browse to the affected database in 'Database to Compact From' dialog box and double-click it to start the repair process

Access 2003 and earlier:

Close the database
Launch the application and click 'Tools' menu
Point to 'Database Utilities' and click 'Compact and Repair Database'
Browse to the corrupted database in Database to Compact From' dialog box
Click 'Compact' and proceed as per the instructions

Open the database after the repair process completes. If it still shows corruption symptoms, you need to apply third-party tools for repairing damaged Access databases.

access repair software are powerful utilities, which are exclusively designed for fixing corruption errors with MDB files. These applications come integrated with interactive interface and allow for easy Access Database Repair in any instance of database corruption.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Error “Cannot lock file ” while opening the MS Access database file

Microsoft Access database saved on a server can be accessed by all the client computers connected in the network. These clients – with assigned privileges – can also modify the records saved in the database. However, there is a possibility that these clients may not be able to open the Access database file (ACCDB or MDB) due to various reasons like, Access database file damage, new locks implied, and more. In such situations, the data stored in the file becomes inaccessible. For absolute recovery of data in such situations, an easy way is to restore the data from an updated backup. However, if you have not maintained any database backup or backup is unable to restore the desired records, then you will need to use an advanced access repair software.

As a practical instance, you have an Access database (Accounts) saved on the server. However, when you attempt to open the database file, the below error message pops up:

“Cannot lock file”

The error message does not allow you to open the Accounts database file and further makes all the records inaccessible. Additionally, you receive the same error message each time you attempt to open the database file.

Cause:

Few main causes for the above error message are discussed below:

Accounts database crashed out (corrupted)
You have no read/write privileges on the Accounts database

Resolution:

In case of no read/write privileges, you will need to request the administrator to assign you the privileges. However, in case of Access database corruption, you will need to use an inbuilt repair utility known as “Compact and Repair.” You will need to take the below steps to use the repair utility:

1.Select Database Utilities under Tools drop down list. Click Compact and Repair Database.
2.Click Compact after searching and selecting the database in the ‘Database to Compact From’ dialog box.
3.Select a new folder location for the file in the ‘Compact Database Into’ dialog box.
4.Provide a unique name to the file. Click on Save.


In case, the Accounts database remains corrupted even after using the repair utility, then you will need to use a powerful Access Recovery software. Such access database repair tools are built with rich graphical user interface and use high end scanning methods to repair the corrupted Access database files (.accdb and .mdb).

Monday, October 12, 2009

Repair Microsoft Access 2000 files

Sometimes, when you copy Access 2000 files (that have VBA in background) and attempt to open them on Access 2003 version, the files may not open. In addition, you might encounter an error message telling you to update your version of your MS Jet4.0. In such situations, if you need to access your Access 2000 files, then you will need to restore it from an updated backup. However, if in case, you have not maintained any backup or backup falls short to restore the desired files, then you will need to opt for advanced MS access repair application.

Consider a practical situation, where you installed MS Access 2003 on your new computer and copied your MS Access 2000 file (Employee) on it. However, when you attempt to open the file on your new system, you encounter the below error message:

“Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 or later must be installed to block unsafe expressions without affecting common functionality.”

However, when you attempt to attempt to download the identified update, you further encounter another error message:

“KB829558 SetUp Error
Setup has detected that the Service Pack version of this system is newer than the update you are applying...
There is no need to install this update “

The data stored in the Employee table becomes inaccessible after the above error message appear. TO access the records saved in the Employee table, you will need to set the Macro settings to low. To do so, you will need to follow the below steps:

Go to Tools and click on Macros.
Select Security option.
Change the settings to “Low”

However, if the problem persists, then there is a possibility that your Employee file has been damaged or corrupted. In such situations, you will need to repair the file using an inbuilt repair utility known as “Compact and Repair.” But, if the repair utility is unable to repair your corrupted file, then you will need to use powerful Access Recovery application to repair your corrupted file. Such access database repair tools use high end scanning methods to repair the corrupted Access database files (.accdb and .mdb). These utilities are easy-to-understand without any former technical knowledge.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

MS Access corruption post Spybot Running

Spybot Search and Destroy (S&D) is a program that detects and removes software bugs of almost all kinds from your computer system. The software completely scans the hard drive and repairs registry, ActiveX objects, and more. While Spybot is known for its ease of installation, excellent features, and free updates, running the program can also result in corruption of MS Access database. In such situations, the Access database becomes unmountable and the data stored in the database becomes inaccessible. To overcome such database corruption scenarios, the best way is to restore the data from an updated backup. But if in case, there is no backup available or backup falls short to restore the required data, then you will need to opt for advanced access repair application that can repair your corrupted database.

Consider a practical scenario, where you have created an MS Access database (Employee). You now download Spybot v1.5 2008 1.5/5 and when you run that program, you view that the “Employee” database has been corrupted. You are no longer able to access the records saved in “Employee” database.

Cause:

The primary cause for the inaccessibility of records is corruption of “Employee” database.

Resolution:

An ideal way to resolve the corruption and access the records saved in Employee database is by using an inbuilt repair utility known as “Compact and Repair.” To use the repair utility, you will need to follow the below steps:

1.Select Database Utilities under Tools drop down list.
2.Click Compact and Repair Database.
3.Click Compact after searching and selecting the database in the ‘Database to Compact From’ dialog box.
4.Select a new folder location for the file in the ‘Compact Database Into’ dialog box.
5.Provide a unique name to the file.
6.Click on Save.

The repair utility ensures complete repair in almost all Access database corruption scenarios. But, there are situations where the utility might fail to repair your database. In such circumstances, an ideal way is to use an advanced Access Repair software. Such access database repair applications repair the corrupted database by using powerful scanning methods. These utilities are easy-to-understand without any former technical understanding.

Access Recovery is a user-friendly Access Database Repair software that repairs Access database created in Microsoft Access 2007, 2003, XP (2002), and 2000. Designed for Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT operating systems, the software can restore and Repair Access database components such as tables, queries, forms, reports, macros, and modules.