Microsoft Access - An Overview

WHAT IS ACCESS?         3 A BRIEF HISTORY OF ACCESS         4 ACCESS 1.X / ACCESS 2.0         4 ACCESS 95 / ACCESS 97         4 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS         6 RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT         7 THE EVENT DRIVEN MODEL         7 VBA IN ACCESS 95 / 97         8 THE JET DATABASE ENGINE         10 WHERE IS ACCESS TYPICALLY USED?         11 ACCESS IN CORPORATE BUSINESSES         11 ACCESS IN SMALL BUSINESSES         13 ACCESS AT HOME         13 FEATURES OF ACCESS 97         15 INTEGRATING ACCESS WITH OTHER APPLICATIONS         17 MICROSOFT OFFICE         17 ACCESS AND VISUAL BASIC TOGETHER         18 CONCLUSION         20 GLOSSARY         20 ENDNOTES         23 BIBLIOGRAPHY         28 What is Access? Executive Summary Microsoft Access 97 for the Windows 95 and …

…Microsoft Access control set. ODBC         Open DataBase Connectivity. A standard for accessing different database systems. There are interfaces for Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL and the ODBC driver pack contains drivers for the Access, Paradox, dBase, Text, Excel and Btrieve databases. OLE         Object Linking and Embedding. A distributed object system and protocol from Microsoft. RAD         Rapid Application Development RTF         Rich Text Format. An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and ot