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Fields Defined" Error message when saving your database table? Microsoft Access keeps an internal count of the total number of fields in a database table and has a limit of 255 fields per table. Each time that you change a property for a field, too many fields defined access table the column count is incremented by 1. Also, whenever you delete a field, the column count isn't decreased, but remains the same. When you delete a field, Microsoft Access does NOT reset this counter. So it's possible for you to have less than 255 fields and still get this error message. If your field count is less than 255, just compact the database again which should reset the internal field count counter. This error is more commonly encountered in a database that hasn't been correctly normalised and has excessively large tables with many, many fields. In this case, the better solution would be to redesign the database so that it is normalised to third normal form. Site Map Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions Contact Webmaster © 2003 - 2015 databasedev.co.uk | Advertising
I have an access table that has about 255 columns. Several fields need to be adjusted to a Yes/No instead of its current setting of text. When I try to change it, I get a
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"Too many fields defined" message that pops up. Followed by "Errors were encountered during the access too many fields defined union query save operation. Data types were not changed. Properties were not updated." What is the best way to resolve this? Thank you in too many fields defined excel advance. forest8, Jan 15, 2010 #1 Advertisements John W. Vinson Guest On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:27:15 -0800, forest8 <> wrote: >Hi there > >I have an access table that has about 255 columns. Then http://www.databasedev.co.uk/too_many_fields_defined.html you have a Really Badly Designed Table. 30 columns is a very wide table. 60 columns is a *huge* table. >Several fields need to be adjusted to a Yes/No instead of its current >setting of text. Let me guess... a survey with one field per question? Have you seen Duane Hookum's "At Your Survey" design? It solves this problem. We may have discussed this earlier, I don't recall. >When I try to change it, http://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/too-many-fields-defined-issue.3953667/ I get a "Too many fields defined" message that pops >up. > >Followed by "Errors were encountered during the save operation. Data types >were not changed. Properties were not updated." > >What is the best way to resolve this? What's happening is that there is a hard limit of (an absurdly huge) 255 field limit on tables. When you change a field definition it adds a field with the new datatype, and copies the data from the existing field... eating up one of the 255 "slots". What you may need to do is change the definitions of one or two fields (few enough that you don't hit 255); Compact the database; change one or two more; etc. MUCH better... normalize your data so that your tables are tall and thin, not wide and flat. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] John W. Vinson, Jan 15, 2010 #2 Advertisements Jeff Boyce Guest Take a look at related posts in the tablesdbdesign newsgroup. You'll find that any table with more than around 30 columns is a likely candidate for further normalization. Although Access tables look a bit like spreadsheets, Access is NOT a spreadsheet. The way you'd structure data in a spreadsheet will only lead to much more work from you and from Access, trying to come up with work
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13846776/union-all-query-too-many-fields-defined this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign too many up UNION ALL query: “Too Many Fields Defined” up vote 2 down vote favorite I'm trying to get a UNION of 3 tables, each of which have 97 fields. I've tried the following: select * from table1 union all select * from table2 union all select * from table3 This gives me an error message: Too many fields defined. I also tried explicitly too many fields selecting all the field names from the first table (ellipses added for brevity): select [field1],[field2]...[field97] from table1 union all select * from table2 union all select * from table3 It works fine when I only UNION two tables like this: select * from table1 union all select * from table2 I shouldn't end up with more than 97 fields as a result of this query; the two-table UNION only has 97. So why am I getting Too many fields with 3 tables? EDIT: As RichardTheKiwi notes below, Access is summing up the field count of each SELECT query in the UNION chain, which means that my 3 tables exceed the 255 field maximum. So instead, I need to write the query like this: select * from table1 union all select * from (select * from table2 union all select * from table3) which works fine. sql ms-access share|improve this question edited Dec 12 '12 at 19:28 asked Dec 12 '12 at 19:02 sigil 3,5191362112 2 the tables that are UNIONed need to have the same number of fields, and they should be in the same or