I have created a Microsoft Access database with a single table that contains a single object field. As a test, I loaded a 1 megabyte power-point object into the field and then saved. The resulting .mdb database was a whopping 14 megabytes! If I add a second record to the table the database becomes aproximately 28 Megabytes. Strangely, if I use a Visual Basic application that I wrote to look at the embedded power-point, it somehow makes the .mdb grow by another 14 megs (the application only reads the database...there is not any code to add data back to the table)...The VB app will not run if I set the properties of the .mdb to read only.
This database is growing like some out of control cancer! Any ideas what might be going on here? I tried to disassociate the power-point extension .ppt from the power-point application, but that did not seem to help.
This database is growing like some out of control cancer! Any ideas what might be going on here? I tried to disassociate the power-point extension .ppt from the power-point application, but that did not seem to help.