MSAccess database to store pictures

T

Tim Healy

I am looking for idears, templates, or suggestions to create a database to
STORE and manage my pictures

Has anyone tried this?
 
D

Douglas J. Steele

In general, it's not a good idea to store the pictures inside of Access:
Access tends to bloat significantly.

The sample imaging databases at http://accdevel.tripod.com illustrate three
approaches to handling images in Access, and the download includes an
article discussing considerations in choosing an approach. Two of the
approaches do not use OLE Objects and, thus, avoid the database bloat, and
some other problems, associated with images in OLE Objects.

If you are printing the images in reports, to avoid memory leakage, you
should also see MVP Stephen Lebans' http://www.lebans.com/printfailures.htm.
PrintFailure.zip is an Access97 MDB containing a report that fails during
the Access formatting process prior to being spooled to the Printer Driver.
This MDB also contains code showing how to convert the contents of the Image
control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps alleviate the "Out of
Memory" error that can popup when printing image intensive reports.
 
T

Tim Healy

Thank you,
"In general, it's not a good idea to store the pictures inside of Access"
answered my question.
The Lebans page was quite informative.

Thanks again
 
A

Arvin Meyer

Top