I've been handed a train wreck and I'm supposed to sort through the wreckage and find the program underneath. VBA and Access aren't really my thing. Are there any really good web sites I should know ...
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Why Microsoft Access is dying (and what is replacing it)
Access filled the gap between spreadsheets and real databases. Cloud collaboration, security, and services like Power Apps ...
5 seconds in google tells me that you can call Access with the "/compact" command line switch. Also, there's a KB article at support.microsoft.com that give further details.
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