Explain the purpose of using the compact and repair utility.

What will be an ideal response?


Occasionally, Access databases experience corruption. Database corruption occurs when the data is stored improperly, resulting in the loss of data or database functionality. With everyday use databases may become corrupt, so Access provides the Compact and Repair Database utility. Compact and Repair Database reduces the size of a database and fixes any errors that may exist in the file.

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