Microsoft Access
MS Access

   1.  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: news:comp.databases.ms-access.

   2.  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)