Chapter 16Access Projects

Introduction

In this chapter, you will learn about Access projects, how they are different from Access databases, and how they provide a different perspective on the concept of SQL commands. We will also go into the fundamental elements of an Access project and show some of the pitfalls in their use.

Definitions

Access database — An Access program developed with the Access Jet database engine.

Access project — An Access program that uses an SQL back end exclusively rather than local Jet elements.

Overview

We have been a bit vague in defining exactly what database engine we have been working with for the examples in this book. The reason for this is both simple and complex as it almost always is when dealing with Microsoft ...

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