[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

microsoft access
     
        1.  a relational database running under microsoft
        windows.  data is stored as a number of "tables",
        e.g. "stock".  each table consists of a number of "records"
        e.g. for different items and each record contains a number
        of "fields", e.g. "product code", "supplier", "quantity in
        stock".
     
        access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports".  a
        form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the
        user to step through records one at a time.  a report shows
        selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped
        into sections with different kinds of total including sum,
        minimum, maximum, average.
     
        there are also facilities to use links "joins" between
        tables which share a common field and to filter records
        according to certain criteria or search for particular field
        values.
     
        version: 2 date?.
     
        usenet newsgroup: news:comp.databases.ms-access.
     
        2.  a communications program from microsoft,
        meant to compete with procomm and other programs.  it sucked
        and was dropped.  years later they reused the name for their
        database.
     
        date?
     
        1997-07-20
     
     
see also:
relational database microsoft windows tables records fields forms 
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