Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access (or Microsoft Office Access) is a computer application program relational database is intended for home and small to medium-sized enterprises. This application is a member of several Microsoft Office applications, in addition to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. This application uses the Microsoft Jet database engine Database Engine, and also uses an intuitive graphical display that allows users.

Microsoft Access can use data stored in Microsoft Access, Microsoft Jet Database Engine, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, or all containers database that supports ODBC standard. The users / programmers are proficient to use it to develop complex software applications, while less proficient programmers can use to develop software applications that simple. Access also supports the techniques of object-oriented programming, but can not be classified into object-oriented programming toolkit.

Microsoft released the Microsoft Access 1.0 in November 1992 and continued with the release of version 2.0 in 1993. Microsoft determines the minimum specifications to run Microsoft Access 2.0 is a computer with Microsoft Windows 3.0 operating system, RAM capacity of 4 megabytes (6 megabytes is recommended) and free hard disk space required 8 megabytes (14 megabytes is recommended). Version 2.0 of Microsoft Access comes with seven 3 ½-inch floppy diskettes 1:44 megabyte size.

The software works very well on a database with many records but there are some cases where the data is damaged. For example, the database size exceeds 700 megabytes often have problems like this (at the time, the hard disk is still outstanding under 700 megabytes). Manuals are carrying cautions that some cases are caused by a device driver that archaic or improper configuration.

Name code (codename) which is used by Cirrus Access is the first time that developed before Microsoft developed the Microsoft Visual Basic, while the form-making machine interface uses the Ruby called. Bill Gates saw the prototypes (prototype) and decided that the BASIC programming language component should be developed together as a separate application but can be expanded. The project is called the Thunder. The two projects were developed separately, and making machine form used by the two do not match each other. It ended when Microsoft released Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

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