When using an Access database as the backend for your website, it's often easy to forget about the database's health. Because you're accessing it through a web browser, it's easy to focus more on web functionality and any coding errors and forget that your database might not be performing at its optimal level. For this reason, it's a good idea to create a periodic maintenance schedule for your Access database. This maintenance schedule might include the following elements:
Adding these tasks to your database maintenance will move you in the right direction toward a worry-free database backend for your website. |