What is access?

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Jeff Conrad [MSFT]

These should help:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HA102133061033.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HA101650711033.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HA101656301033.aspx

http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie/resources.html

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Jeff Conrad - Access Junkie - Ex-MVP
Software Development Engineer in Test
XAS Services
Microsoft Corporation

Co-author - Microsoft Office Access 2007 Inside Out
Presenter - Microsoft Access 2007 Essentials
http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie.html
Access 2007 Info: http://www.AccessJunkie.com
 
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(PeteCresswell)

Whatever else you read about Access, keep in mind that it's actually two
products bundled into one - and either product can be used separately.
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- A front-end development system analogous to VB or PowerBuilder which can be
pointed at any back end.

- A back-end file-based data storage system that is superficially similar to
products like SyBase, Oracle, or SQL-Server - but which is fundamentally
different underneath and definitely *not* suitable for the same range
of applications. Technically, the back-end part is called "JET", but
for practical purposes most people think of it as MS Access.
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I lot of IT people seem unaware of the above distinction and judge the front-end
development system on the limitations of the back-end data storage system.

There are limitations in the front-end system, but they have nothing to do with
the limitations in the back-end system.
 
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