When should use ACCESS?

Question

Hi all,
I have written a java program to load some data (text file) into ACCESS database. It is fine for testing. Once I put it into my real data (about 1.3 MB), it doesn't work. After I check with my tables, some data is missing. I really don't know why. I can't see any exception error messages.
Then, I suspected that is the problem of ACCESS, therefore, I turned autoCommit into false, and commited it finally, but it still doesn't work. So, are there any techniques can help?
Actually, can anybody give me some suggestions, how large the data should be stored in ACCESS. When should us give up ACCESS.

Answer 1

I think it is better for me to answer my question, so
that it is helpful fo other programmers who have
encountered same problem.
This problem doesn't come from wrong codes, but for
reliability of ACCESS, at least I suspect. In my case,
although I have only one mega data for loading, this
data involved a lot of relationship (a lot of tables).
Therefore, It is not sufficient to just mention how
large you raw data is. If your raw data will generate
multiple relationships, it will be another story.
My solution is, setting autocommit to false, and comit
it for each 10 objects(which involved several insert
statements for several tables). It is functionable. I
think that ACCESS is just for development and testing.
But, I have a question, who know the max capacity of
ACCESS in term of MB?
Still don't know what you are talking about. The usage I saw for MS Access was for financial transactions for banking purposes. I know that it has also been used for medical records. And it has been used extensively for small retail.
And to my mind that means it is not just "for developement and testing."
And if you think Oracle and MS SQL Server can't end up with corrupted databases, then you might want to do some research into that. I know that they can. And there is certainly no reason to believe that other databases are perfect in that regard.
Most of the cases that I am familar with where there are problems with corrupt data in MS Access it can be usually be traced to poor user practices. Such as hitting the power down button instead of using shutdown. And that would undoubtly cause problems with Oracle and MS SQL Server as well, but you don't see that as much because admins deal with servers and their training usually includes enough info so that they know not to do that.