How to fix the Runtime Code 10516 Microsoft Office Access can't append all the records to the table

About Runtime Code 10516

Runtime Code 10516 happens when Microsoft Access fails or crashes whilst it's running, hence its name. It doesn't necessarily mean that the code was corrupt in some way, but just that it did not work during its run-time. This kind of error will appear as an annoying notification on your screen unless handled and corrected. Here are symptoms, causes and ways to troubleshoot the problem.

Definitions (Beta)

Here we list some definitions for the words contained in your error, in an attempt to help you understand your problem. This is a work in progress, so sometimes we might define the word incorrectly, so feel free to skip this section!

• Access - DO NOT USE this tag for Microsoft Access, use [ms-access] instead
• Add - Addition is a mathematical operation that represents combining collections of objects together into a larger collection
• Append - To append is to join or add on to the end of something.
• Field - In computer science a field is a smaller piece of data from a larger collection.
• Key - A unique identifier used to retrieve a paired value
• Null - Null means nothing or unknown, depending on context.
• Record - A record in programming is a data type with labels to access fields of the record.
• Records - A record is a value that contains other values, typically in fixed number and sequence and typically indexed by names.
• Set - A set is a collection in which no element is repeated, which may be able to enumerate its elements according to an ordering criterion an "ordered set" or retain no order an "unordered set".
• Table - DO NOT USE THIS TAG; it is ambiguous
• Type conversion - Type conversion is the way of implicitly or explicitly changing an entity of one data type into another
• Access - Microsoft Access, also known as Microsoft Office Access, is a database management system from Microsoft that commonly combines the relational Microsoft JetACE Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools
• Lock - Locking allows different types of resources to be used exclusively by one process at a time.
• Type - Types, and type systems, are used to enforce levels of abstraction in programs.
• Microsoft office - Microsoft Office is a proprietary collection of desktop applications intended to be used by knowledge workers for Windows and Macintosh computers