MS Access ==>
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: 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.
[Date?]
(1997-07-20)
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