Introduction
Microsoft Access 2000, Version 9.0 (called Access 2000 in this book), is a powerful and robust 32-bit relational database management system (RDBMS) for creating desktop and client/server database applications that run under Windows 9x and Windows NT 4+. As a component of the Professional and Developer editions of the Microsoft Office 2000 suite, Access 2000 has an upgraded user interface that's consistent with Microsoft Excel 2000 and Word 2000, as well as with Windows 9x common controls, such as an Outlook-style Database window and common file open and save dialogs.
The most significant change from Access 97 is Access 2000's adoption of OLE DB, and ActiveX Data Object Extensions (ADOX) 2.1, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.1, which replace ...
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