In the majority of cases, Access database corruption isn’t the outcome of sloppy design or poor programming technologies. Most of the corruption could be credited to several other factors, which usually cause the loss of file stability and finally data loss.
For instance, the data storage server when MDB (Access database file) is located might be restarted when users are connected with the database and were performing some editing to the database. Or users might be prematurely shutting down their system during the file operations.
Unlike the managed data systems like Microsoft SQL Server, the Microsoft Access is fundamentally a file based database management system. When you request to access data from database, you are just making a request for file crosswise the network. Likewise, the data update takes place crosswise the network when the information is sent.
Accordingly, there are greater chances of something going erroneous during the process of transferring data and Microsoft Access marks the MDB file as ‘suspect’. In such situations, you would be presented with some indefinite error messages like ‘unrecognized database format’.
The sources of the database corruption could be the faulty network components like cables, hubs, network interface cards (NIC). It could also be the result of improper application shutdown suing the cross symbol in the upper right corner of the application (that is switching off the power or by using the Ctrl + Alt + Del buttons).
The best way to safeguard your data and ensure database availability is to prevent the database corruption. You can do it by simply following the below given steps:
1 Always close the application correctly
2 Periodically compact the database using Compact and Repair tool
3 Try to avoid mixing the operating systems in multi-user environment
4 To edit the database, user should place it on the local drive
5 Avoid repeated Open/Close operations
Even after taking precautions, the database corruption occurs; you need to consider about Access recovery solutions. The access recovery solutions are available in the form of simple applications, known as Access repair software.
Stellar Phoenix Access Recovery software is the most advanced and highly developed Access repair software, which is capable of handling all of the Access corruption issues. This software uses powerful scanning algorithms to completely scan the database and end up at absolute access recovery.
Phoenix access repair software is usable for all of the Access database objects including forms, reports, macros, constraints, relationships and so forth. Using this robust Access recovery software, you can have Access repair for all file versions of Microsoft Access including Access 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2007.