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?).
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)