Access index structure & IBM Vsam Index Structure

[Carlyle]

Hi There

I am trying to get some information on the structure of a MsAccess DB index.
For many years I did a lot of work with IBM's Vsam files and I got to know
it very well. Now that I'm working with access.I sometimes wonder when the
access DB slows If it could be issues with the Index structure Key ranges,
index sets or or key compressions or sequence sets. I have never seen any
documentation describing the structure of an Access Index. Any information
would be helpful

Thanks

Dennis

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

The file formats are closely guarded secrets. They've never been released to
the public.

 

[Sylvain Lafontaine]

Maybe you will find what you want there:

http://www.e-tech.ca/001-AccessFileFormat.asp
http://www.xiph.org/positron/doc/mdb.html

 

[Tony Toews]

"Sylvain Lafontaine" <sylvain aei ca (fill the blanks, no spam

Maybe you will find what you want there:

http://www.e-tech.ca/001-AccessFileFormat.asp

The above page has been copied from the HACKING.txt as found in the
MDB Tools SourceForge.net download file.
file.http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mdbtools/mdbtools-0.5.tar.gz
Also see http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/

Tony
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[Sylvain Lafontaine]

Noted, thanks!