Microsoft Access
1. <database> 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. <communications> 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.
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