CHAPTER26

Microsoft Access

26.1 INTRODUCTION

Microsoft Access is a powerful and user-friendly database management system for Windows. It is another relational database management system provided by Microsoft with many innovative features for data storage and retrieval using graphical tools of Windows environment to make tasks easier to perform.

Microsoft Access has been designed for users who want to make full advantage of the Windows environment for their database management tasks while remaining end users and leaving the programming to others. Microsoft Access provides users with one of the simplest and most flexible DBMS solutions on the market today. It supports Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and dynamic data exchange (DDE), the ability ...

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