Hey guys,
I have a database that my company has been using for years. I keep a backup of the database every time I make a revision. I make revisions almost daily (at least weekly) so I have several back ups saved. In mid October 2013 my co-worker and I started noticing our databases (front and back ends) have both started to bloat at an alarming rate. We know it's not our code because we have ran older versions prior to the mid October date that never bloated like this and they too bloat now. Also, nothing has changed in our back end and it bloats now. We also have another large database on the same server and it too has began to bloat and we haven't changed it at all. Looking in the server updates, we found several updates were pushed through on 10/13 and on 10/15. We uninstalled a few that pertained to Access and MS Office, but we are still seeing the bloating. We also have a Mexico plant that runs nearly the same Access database, but it resides on their own server and their server has not had the updates installed and they are not experiencing the bloat.
What do you guys think? Has anyone heard of this? We'll be at 2gb in 2 days and then we'll have major problems. Think an update from 2010 to 2013 would help??